Digitale Arbeits- und Organisationsräume: Räumliche Dimensionen digitaler Arbeit am Beispiel Crowdworking

Sauerborn Elgen ()
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Sauerborn Elgen: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Große Scharrnstraße 59, 15230Frankfurt (Oder), Deutschland

Arbeit, 2019, vol. 28, issue 3, 241-262

Abstract: Digitization changes the meaning of work spaces. With digitization, the spaces in which work takes place are also changing, since they are less and less tied to a particular place. But even digital work is not detached from spatial meaning and assumptions about the dissolution of spatial significance must be questioned critically. This is why this article proposes a conceptualization of digital work spaces on the basis of three dimensions. With reference to new boundaries, affective relations and the so-called „Informationsraum“ (information space), I illustrate what distinguishes digital from traditional work spaces. Using the example of crowdwork as a prototype of purely digital work, I then discuss how digital spaces such as platforms or apps can adopt functions of traditional organizational spaces. This calls for a broader understanding of digital spaces of work and organization.

Keywords: Digitization; crowd working; information space; spaces of work and organization; Digitalisierung; Crowdworking; Informationsraum; Arbeits- und Organisationsräume; Digitization; crowd working; information space; spaces of work and organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2019-0016

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