[Xmca-l] Re: AI and Activity Theory

[Bella Kotik-Friedgut]

Happy birthday dear Mike! Active longevity!
Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut


On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 6:58 PM mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> 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). $35.00
>>
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/wusa.12434__;!!Mih3wA!VO1aRbkcyysNoPn3OPlarwkt8-r8x-aL79AQ7pODKj656D9uFdr7La3ggDWklGrXgPUyeg$ 
>> <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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