Books
Edited Special Issue of Information, Communication and Society
My co-editor Laura Robinson and I just finished assembling a special issue of Information, Communication and Society. It is a collection of the best papers on technology themes from the American Sociological Association meetings in the summer of 2011. This special issue is called “The Social Matrix of the Emergent Web: Governance, Exchange, Participation, & […]
Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
In the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, employees of Internet startups took risks–left well-paying jobs for the chance of striking it rich through stock options (only to end up unemployed a year later), relocated to areas that were epicenters of a booming industry (that shortly went bust), chose the opportunity to be creative over […]
Affordances, Technical Agency, and the Politics of Technologies of Cultural Production
Culture Digitally is a collective of scholars, gathered by Tarleton Gillespie (Cornell University) and Hector Postigo (Temple University). With the generous funding of the National Science Foundation, the group supports scholarly inquiry into new media and cultural production through numerous projects, collaborations, a scholarly blog, and annual workshops. For more information on projects and researchers […]