This book explores user labor in the internet age, offering innovative perspectives on digital labor. It broadens the discussion on topics like technology and power, the reproduction of network user labor, labor relations in cyberspace, economic rewards of network user labor, and especially the non-economic rewards of network user labor. Specifically, the book examines the impact of technology, power, and capital on network user labor, the control exerted by media platforms over this labor, and the payment methods for both economic and non-economic rewards.

Zhuyuan Yang, a professor at the School of Communication at Guizhou University and a PhD supervisor, focuses on digital labor and has published two related monographs.