本文以台灣漫畫家為研究個案，分析近年來數位科技對文化工作者的實際影響。由於當前資本邏輯滲入並主宰文化領域，因此包括漫畫家等文化工作者，應該視為勞工階級來進行研究。本文首先分析當前台灣漫畫家的勞動處境，描繪這群文化工作者的整體勞動條件概況。接著透過對漫畫家的訪談，佐以相關文獻資料，從「去技術化」(deskilling) 及「增權」(empowerment) 兩個對立面向，探討網際網路等 數位科技如何重構台灣漫畫家的勞動過程。在增權方面，接近使用網路的低成本特性，讓漫畫家能夠掌握─部份流通工具、增加文化工作者所需的商業聲望。在去技術化面向，網路等數位科技轉化了漫畫家的技術'增加個別勞動的強度，同時擴大了產業預備軍的規模，也使漫畫家的勞動技術稀有性受到挑戰，而可能影響其勞動條件。

Through a case study on Taiwanese cartoonists, this paper analyzes the influences of the Internet and digital technologies on cultural workers’ labor process. Because the capitalist mode of production has dominated the cultural field, artists have become workers in the service workers in the service sector. First, this study provides an overview of the market structure of the comics industry and working conditions of cartoonists in Taiwan by reviewing related literature. Second, through interviews with cartoonists and analyses of secondary sources, this paper examines how the labor process of cartoonists is restructured by the Internet and other digital technologies, in terms of two opposite dimensions: "empowerment" and "deski1ling" aspects. On the one hand, the relative low cost of accessing the Internet eables cartoonists to control, to a certain degree, the means of distribution. Cartoonists, thus, can enhance their commercial reputations and improve their power in bargaining with publishers. On the other hand, digitalization helps capitalists to reduce the amount of employers and to intensify the works of laborers. Meawhile, the huge amount of "industrial reserve army" on the Internet also threatens the economic rights of cartoonists.