AUTHOR=Bao Yaxiong , Hu Xinyu , Zhang Ruijie , Shi Xiaochuan 

TITLE=Enter into society: Digitalized livelihoods and prosumer labor for people with disabilities in China

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103199

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103199

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Digital labor mostly takes "exploitation" as its analytical framework, which cannot refer to the rich labor practices of multiple subjects. In the context of the rapid development of China's digital economy, this study combines life-history interviews and field research methods to explore the value and significance of digitalized livelihoods and free prosumer labor for people with disabilities in China through self-narration. It emphasizes the subjectivity of the people with disabilities as laborers and provides another analysis path for studying digital labor. It found that although the digitalized livelihoods practice of people with disabilities is still "precarious labor" in nature, whose self-expression in the cyberspace is easy to fall into the shackles of capital flow logic. However, digital labor practice provides them with the opportunity to "sit at home, enter the community and society", also enables them to "live independently". More importantly, this opportunity and possibility enable people with disabilities to experience a sense of value and self-esteem as "competent people". Therefore, in the realistic environment of structural obstacles in the social life of the people with disabilities in China, the possibility of "inclusiveness" brought by digital labor is the core value brought by digital society.