Museum Crowdsourcing as Playful Labour
Through the lenses of Autonomism and playbour theory, the essay re-reads the museum's investment in crowdsourcing as one expression of current, culture-wide trends toward the expansion and naturalisation of immaterial and affective labour: the user's work is harnessed through activities th...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/iss, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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ICOFOM Study Series
2018
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Through the lenses of Autonomism and playbour theory, the essay re-reads the museum's investment in crowdsourcing as one expression of current, culture-wide trends toward the expansion and naturalisation of immaterial and affective labour: the user's work is harnessed through activities that sit between work and leisure, and the museum gains in capital and legitimisation, while the user is paid in subjectification, affirmation and intellectual currency. While crowdsourcing - in current museum literature - is usually assumed a priori to be advantageous and ethically empowering for museums and audiences, an interpretation of this instrument as a radical expression of labour cautions us against the ever-present danger of exploitation, less visible but nonetheless tangible. |
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