[Xmca-l] Re: AI and Activity Theory

[mike cole]

Thanks, Helena!
We are all feel the value of free work being sucked up byte by byte.
The top is 100% timely.
mike

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 1:31 PM Worthen, Helena Harlow <
hworthen@illinois.edu> wrote:

> For various reasons I’ve been thinking about the uses of CHAT.  Here is a
> book that is not getting much publicity for some reason, despite the flood
> of sudden consciousness about the power of AI.  The authors (Bonnie Nardi
> is an XCMA participant from way back) lay out the analytic framework with a
> swift trip through Activity Theory:
>
> I did a review of it for the *Journal of Labor and Society* a few years
> ago — wow, 2018!
>
> BOOK REVIEW
> Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism.  Ekbia,
> Hamid R.,  Nardi, Bonnie A., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2017. 266 pp.,
> plus index, references, notes (total 280). $35.00
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/wusa.12434__;!!Mih3wA!S5WA9w5cnBzbdrzkuZn_auoP7dJl__T8MUI1rDQ00fOQ5uiNkcNBPKnQtBc_EjW_2JJCXA$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/wusa.12434__;!!Mih3wA!WweSJJ1IsEaEjE76SJHrOdem3oJuVTYQcynXGFmV73OExVgGyss_hBCosHgZDd4qOL22_Q$>
>
> An important point that they make is that AI is not just about job
> replacement, but the value of the free work that is swept up by algorithms
> to form capital.
>
> Worthen, Helena Harlow
> hworthen@illinois.edu
>
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