The User Condition 03: User Proletarianization, a Table

I’m posting this table, as I think it fairly elegantly summarizes what I called “proletarianization” in the previous User Condition posts. The step forward I made here is to connect the level of user gestures to that of the algorithm. The table as image can be found here.

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padding:10px;
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}
.demo caption {
font-weight: bold;
background-color: gray;
color: white;
.demo th {
border:1px solid #C0C0C0;
padding:10px;
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}
.demo td {
border:1px solid #C0C0C0;
padding:10px;
}


User Proletarianization


Feature
Platform
Factory




repetitive, semi-automatic, “mindless” gestures
infinite scroll, swipe
assembly


movement without relocation
feed (the user doesn’t leave the page)
conveyor belt (the worker doesn’t leave their position)


externalized, opaque, inaccessible knowledge (savoir)
algorithm (arranging data into lists)
industrial know-how (arranging parts into objects)