<nettime> Fwd: Class composition in black economies and the micro-contract e-lance phenomenon - network economies... ?

[Nick White]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:19:46PM +1100, dr.woooo wrote:
 
> I’m curious if anyone has written class compositionist type stuff
> on the other similar types of work and perhaps more interesting
> black economy in ‘networked capitalism ‘ ie. The class make up
> and nature of spammers, virus writers, paid hackers and the class
> make up and nature of work in the drug economy ( I heard someone
> writes on drug-cartels/dealing as another form of work in mexico ? )
>
> Any pointers to these enquiries or thoughts ?

Jonathan Zittrain touched on some of these issues in a recent
talk at the Berkman Centre; it's well worth listening to.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/02/22/jonathan-zittrain
-minds-for-sale-2/

Nick