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Slaves of the Cyberworld
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- Summary
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It goes by many names-digital outsourcing, micropayment, or an assortment of other harmless monikers. But when the hungry and desperate supply round-the-clock online labor for pennies or nothing, t...
It goes by many names-digital outsourcing, micropayment, or an assortment of other harmless monikers. But when the hungry and desperate supply round-the-clock online labor for pennies or nothing, the term "slavery" starts to gain validity. This program examines the issue on a global level as it reveals the human cost of exploitative Internet businesses. Viewers meet struggling Serbian camera slingers who supply image after image to avaricious stock photography sites; a French waitress trying to make ends meet as an online translator, despite earning only a fraction of the minimum wage; and Chinese teenagers who, after working brutally long shifts testing video games, wait for paychecks that may never come.
Details
- Creator
- Java (Firm)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2010], c2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (54 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781616166762
- OCLC
- ocn709677813
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on Apr. 01, 2010.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Internet Photographs (2:26) -- Skilled Photographers in Serbia (2:08) -- Amateur Salary for Professional Work (3:08) -- Photography Work in Serbia (1:47) -- Unfair Competition from Globalization (1:14) -- Uncertainties of New System (1:26) -- Protection for Models (1:29) -- Copyright Protection (1:49) -- Increasing Profits; Reducing Labor (2:19) -- Seattle: Amazon Headquarters (1:14) -- Opposition to Internet Labor (1:10) -- A New Form of Slavery (1:53) -- No Pay for Completed Work (1:05) -- Last Resort for Income (1:37) -- Virtual Money System (2:24) -- Profitable Internet Game Industry (1:14) -- Virtual Weapons Factory (1:54) -- China: Internet Game Business (1:48) -- Work Conditions in the Cyberworld (3:01) -- Illegal Hiring Practices in Cyberworld (1:44) -- Cyber Jobs: A Last Resort (2:06) -- Day Shift in the Cyberworld (1:16) -- Life with a Cyber Job (2:27) -- China's New Middle Class (1:40) -- IGE Headquarters, Shanghai (2:08) -- Truth Internet Game Labor (2:01) -- Modern Internet Job Market (3:19)