Digital labor is the new killer app

New Media and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-152

  Fish, Adam ^a   Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; culture; Current TV; digital; entrepreneurship; history; labor; media; Samasource; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857679240     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811412159     Document Type: Article

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