Situated Technologies Pamphlets 7: From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City

by Trebor Scholz

The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it are affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other ÒsituatedÓ technologies? In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 7, Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu reflect on the relationship between labor and technology in urban space where communication, attention, and physical movement generate financial value for a small number of private stakeholders. Online and off, Internet users are increasingly wielded as a resource for economic amelioration, for private capture, and the channels of communication are becoming increasingly inscrutable. Liu and Scholz How does the intertwining of labor and play complicate our understanding of exploitation?

78 pages, Paperback

Published October 19, 2010