Table of Contents

Detailed Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: An Occupational Hazard
Introduction: The Digital Age and the Spirits of Capitalism
Chapter 1: The Spirit of Competition: Crowdsourcing through Incentive Competitions
Chapter 2: The Spirit of Collaboration: Crowdsourcing through Communities
Chapter 3: The Spirit of the Game:
Smartphone Apps and the Digital Extraction of Surplus Value
Chapter 4: In the Spirit of Convenience:
Amazon Go and Surveillance Capitalism
Chapter 5: The Spirit of the Gift: The Work of Techno-philanthropy
Conclusion: The Spirit and Contradictions of Digital Capitalism
Bibliography   
Endnotes

About the Author

Jenny Huberman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Reviews

“With energetic purpose and grounded arguments, Huberman lays out the ideological spirit animating digital capitalism. This book shows how the avatars of digital capitalism ‒ through the use (and abuse) of concepts like convenience ‒ seek to convince us to embrace this new regime.”
Jathan Sadowski, Monash University “If there is one book you plan to read or assign this year to get a handle on why today’s digital world feels inescapable, it should be this. Huberman offers readers crisp, elegant prose dissecting contemporary cases of the material consequences that befall us all when a few elites are gripped by an ideology of digital progress. This is at once a synthetic treatise on why we are where we are and a roadmap for pushing against the soullessness of digital economies.”
Mary Gray, Microsoft Research and Harvard University