The Reputation Economy: Understanding Knowledge Work in Digital Society - Hardcover

Gandini, Alessandro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113756105X ISBN 13: 9781137561053

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

Exploring the new professional scenes in digital and freelance knowledge, this innovative book provides an account of the subjects and cultures that pertain to knowledge work in the aftermath of the creative class frenzy. Including a broad spectrum of empirical projects, The Reputation Economy documents the rise of freelancing and digital professions and argues about the central role held by reputation within this context, offering a comprehensive interpretation of the digital transformation of knowledge work. The book shows how digital technologies are not simply intermediating productive and organizational processes, allowing new ways for supply and demand to meet, but actually enable the diffusion of cultural conceptions of work and value that promise to become the new standard of the industry.

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About the Author

Alessandro Gandini is a lecturer in the Media department of Middlesex University, London, UK, and is research active at the Centre for Digital Ethnography, University of Milan, Italy. 

From the Back Cover

Exploring the new professional scenes in digital and freelance knowledge, this innovative book provides an account of the subjects and cultures that pertain to knowledge work in the aftermath of the creative class frenzy. Including a broad spectrum of empirical projects, The Reputation Economy documents the rise of freelancing and digital professions and argues about the central role held by reputation within this context, offering a comprehensive interpretation of the digital transformation of knowledge work. The book shows how digital technologies are not simply intermediating productive and organizational processes, allowing new ways for supply and demand to meet, but actually enable the diffusion of cultural conceptions of work and value that promise to become the new standard of the industry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113756105X
• ISBN 13: 9781137561053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140