[Air-L] Reading List on Cultures of Production in Internet/Social Media/App Firms

[Helen Kennedy]

Some references, and some self-promotion thrown in: 

New media / web / internet work 
Batt, R., Christopherson, S., Rightor, N. and van Jaarsveld, D. (2000) Net Working: work patterns and workforce policies for the new media industry, Centre for Advanced Human Resource Studies Working Paper Series, Cornell University, NY, http://works.bepress.com/rosemary_batt/27/ or www.nyecon.cornell.edu/downloads/research/Net_Working.pdf
Christopherson, S (2004) ‘The divergent worlds of new media: how policy shapes work in the creative economy’, Review of Policy Research, 21(4): 543-558
Deuze, M. (2007) Media Work, Cambridge: Polity Press [[ something on games in here ]]. 
Gill, R. (2002) ‘Cool, Creative and Egalitarian? Exploring Gender in Project-Based New Media Work in Europe’, Information, Communication and Society  5(1): 70-89. 
Gill, R. (2007) ‘Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web’. Report for the Institute of Network Cultures, http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/genderInstitute/whosWho/profiles/gill.htm,  date accessed 26 September 2007.
Gill, R. (2010) ‘Life is a Pitch: managing the self in new media work’ in M. Deuze (ed) Managing Media Work, London: Sage.
Gottschall, K. and Kroos, D. (2006) ‘Self-employment in comparative perspectives: general trends and the case of new media’ in S. Walby, H. Gottfried, K. Gottschall, and M. Osawa  (eds) Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
Kennedy, H. (2010) ‘Net work: the professionalisation of web design’, Media, Culture and Society, 32: 187-203.
Kennedy, H. (2012) Net Work: Ethics and Values in Web Design, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kerr, Aphra, http://www.nuim.ie/people/aphra-kerr, lots on games industries
Kotamraju, N.P. (2002) ‘Keeping up: web design skill and the reinvented worker’. Information, Communication and Society, 5(1): 1-26.
Mayer-Ahuja, N. and Wolf, H. (2007) ‘Beyond the Hype: working in the German Internet Industry’, Critical Sociology, 33(1-2): 73-99.
Perrons, D. (2003) ‘The new economy and the work-life balance: conceptual explorations and a case study of new media’, Gender, Work and Organization, 10(1): 65-93.
Perrons, D. (2007) ‘Living and working patterns in the new knowledge economy: new opportunities and old social divisions in the case of new media and care work’ in C. Fagan, L. McDowell, D. Perrons, K. Ray and K. Ward (eds) Gender Divisions in the New Economy: changing patterns of work, care and public policy in Europe and North America (London: Edward Elgar).
Ross, A. (2003) No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 
Wittel, A. (2001) ‘Toward a network sociality’, Theory, Culture and Society, 18(6): 51-76.

Social media monitoring/sentiment analysis
Andrejevic, M (2011) ‘The work that affective economics does’, Cultural Studies, 25, 4-5, pp604-620.
Hearn, A. (2011) ‘Structuring Feeling: web 2.0, online ranking and rating, and the digital “reputation” economy’, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organisation, vol 11 no 1, http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/index.htm. 
Kennedy, H. (2012) ‘Perspectives on sentiment analysis’, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 56 (4): 435-450.

Cultural industries: general
Banks, M. (2007) The Politics of Cultural Work, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) The Cultural Industries, 2nd edition, London: Sage.
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Baker, S. (2010) Creative Labour: media work in three cultural industries, London: Routledge.

Dr Helen Kennedy
Senior Lecturer in New Media, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/)
More about me: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/h.kennedy
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Subject: [Air-L] Reading List on Cultures of Production in Internet/Social Media/App Firms

Hi All


I am putting together a reading list on "Cultures of Production in
Internet/Social Media/App Firms" or something like that. I am
particularly interested in empirical, qualitative work that is
theoretically informed (i.e. by work on digital/immaterial/affective
labour though not limited to that perspective) but does a deep dive in
the quotidian cultures of work and work life in the industry.


I am already rockin' the work of Gina Neff, Alice Marwick, Melissa
Gregg, Richard Sennett, David Stark and Ursula Huws. I am also broadly
familiar with the cultural industries literature and am looking for work
specifically on internet/mobile and social media/software app
enterprises. Work on the gaming industry would also be valuable.


Thanks


Andrew


Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
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