“…On the contrary, with the concept of digital labor, Internet scholars claimed that the participatory culture promoted by Web 2.0 technologies, rather than opening real possibilities for democratic empowerment, had strengthened the corporate exploitation of user's digital production (Andrejevic, 2003(Andrejevic, , 2007Fuchs, 2008Fuchs, , 2013Fuchs, , 2014Huws, 2003;Scholz, 2013;Terranova, 2000Terranova, , 2013Van Dijck & Nieborg, 2009). We need to contextualize the works of scholars such as Dyer-Witheford (2014) or Daubs and Manzerolle (2016) on mobile apps within this field. In fact, they follow a very similar line of reasoning as the ones of digital labor scholars and argue that mobile apps need to be perceived as a form of capitalist exploitation and surveillance.…”