Digital feudalism : creators, credit, consumption, and capitalism

Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the way we work, consume and pay for things. Under this new 'digital feudalism', we find precar...

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Main Author Arditi, David (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
SeriesSocietyNow.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781804557686
DOI10.1108/9781804557662
Physical Description1 online resource (220 pages).

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505 0 |a Chapter 1. Introduction: A squid game reality -- Chapter 2. Buy more, own less: Subscriptions and unending consumption -- Chapter 3. Working on your own: Precarious labor in the gig economy -- Chapter 4. Debt peonage and primitive accumulation -- Chapter 5. Amazon and Baron Bezos -- Chapter 6. Unboxed: Content creators and influencers -- Chapter 7. Metaverse: Enclosing new spaces -- Chapter 8. From patron to patreon: Crowdfunding information -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Fed-up while locked down. 
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