NSF Support for My Doctoral Student

I’m proud to have been awarded $11,825 from the National Science Foundation to support the work of one of my graduate students Brittany Fiore-Silfvast.  The award is “Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Informationalization of Healthcare: Shifting Subjectivities, Organizational Forms and Ways of Knowing in the U.S. and India” and while procedurally I’m named as PI the funds […]

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Berkeley: Information Labor as Venture Labor: Policy Implications of Technology Industry Risk

Gina Neff is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington. She studies the contemporary economics of media production by examining the relationship between work and technology in both high-tech and media industries. Her book Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (MIT 2012) examines the risk and uncertainties […]

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Boom and Bust: Venture Labor Book Launch

Boom and Bust: Venture Labor Book Launch w/ INC@NYU from Media, Culture, Communication on Vimeo. On Thursday, October 18 2012, INC@NYU was excited to host Gina Neff, visiting scholar at NYU and associate professor at University of Washington, Seattle, to discuss her new book, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries. […]

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