In the modern society, driven by the tremendous advancement of information communication and artificial intelligence technologies, we have entered the digital era, which has triggered significant new transformations in social labor patterns, giving rise to digital labor forms supported by digital platforms. While these new forms of digital labor significantly drive innovations in social life patterns and production modes, they also bring new explicit and implicit contradictions into life and production, necessitating urgent theoretical analysis of digital labor. Grounded in deep insights into the evolutionary trajectory of digital labor, a

philosophical examination reveals three frontier issues: the manifestation of digital labor subjectivity, the diversification of digital labor values, and the existence of digital labor alienation. The analysis aims to rationally grasp the essential characteristics of digital labor and continuously enhance its optimization effects. The findings contribute significant academic value to deepening theoretical understanding of social labor while carrying profound practical implications for proactively advancing labor innovation and fostering the development of new quality productive forces.

digital labor, labor entities, the value of labor, labor alienation, philosophical reflection