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Contributed to Economist on the Internship Economy
I contributed to the article “Generation i” in the Economist Magazine: “For universities it’s really cheap money,” says Gina Neff, a professor of communication at the University of Washington. “They are getting tuition dollars and not having to spend instructional dollars.” Some internships are valuable, she says, citing one she oversees in which students work […]
Book Review: Venture Labor in Contemporary Sociology
Thank you Michael Indergaard for the scholarly review of Venture Labor in Contemporary Sociology. What advice do you give to young folks about jobs? I could tell them I made some investments in my employability, but it is equally true that I mostly muddled through the uncertain career paths of our times. In Frank Knight’s classic […]
Cornell: Information at Work – Heuristics for Failing Technologies
Dr. Gina Neff gives a Colloquium Talk at Cornell University’s School of Information Science in November 2013 on Vimeo. This talk is about the nature of technological failure, especially in the workplaces where software solutions have been introduced to help overcome differences in organizational culture.