Book Review: Venture Labor in Public Books
Thanks to Laura Noren for long and thoughtful review essay in Public 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 […]