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Further Readings
Albinsson, P. A., Perera, B. Y., & Belk, R. (2018). The rise of the sharing economy: Exploring the challenges and opportunities of collaborative consumption. Denver, Colorado; Santa Barbara, California;: Praeger.
This book discusses the historical roots of the modern sharing economy, how technology enables sharing, and what tensions may exist between the sharing economy, the market, governments, and policy-makers.
Anderson, C. (2012). Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. New York: Crown Business.
This book focuses on using open-source design, 3D printing, crowdsourcing of ideas, utilization of available lower-cost design and manufacturing tools, and reviewing options to outsource capital-intensive manufacturing.
Filì, V., & Costantini, F. (2019). Legal issues in the digital economy: The impact of disruptive technologies in the labour market. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
This book examines critically examines how new technologies, like AI, and shifts in the economy towards a ‘gig’ or ‘platform’ economy may be developing faster than legislation can. The result may be a lack of protection for workers. While written in the context of EU laws, this has useful implications for North American law as well.
Frey, C. B. (2019). The technology trap: Capital, labor, and power in the age of automation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
In this book, the author discusses what can lead workers to embrace a new technology and when they will reject it, based on an overview from the pre-industrial period to the modern day.
Recommended Websites
The Conversation
This is a crowd-sourced project that brings together academics and researchers online to provide the public with access to high-quality journalism in the form of news, commentary, and reports.
The Fibreculture Journal
http://fibreculturejournal.org/
This journal publishes cutting-edge research on digital media, networks, and transdisciplinary critique.
Hyr App
This is an app that facilitates gig work.
Mute Magazine
The key topics of Mute Magazine are culture, arts, and politics as they take place online.