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Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality: Dynamics of Virtual Work

Autor Wing-Fai Leung
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 dec 2018
This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy. 
Addressing the intersections between issues of gender, age, ethnicity and class, the author interviews startup founders, including many husband and wife teams, in order to understand the working and private lives of digital entrepreneurs in and from Taiwan who utilise Internet and mobile technologies, against a backdrop of the country’s political, social and economic history. It investigates contemporary debates about entrepreneurship as they are experienced by new generations of start-uppers who challenge existing social and cultural norms by becoming creative workers and embracing the precarity that exists in the volatile digital economy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030073664
ISBN-10: 3030073661
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: XVI, 226 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer
Colecția Dynamics of Virtual Work
Seria Dynamics of Virtual Work

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. Family Metaphor, the Geek and the Entrepreneurial Ideal.- 3. Girls in Tech: Progress and Barriers in a Gendered Culture.- 4. Luxury Chairs and Pizzas: The Production of Social Spaces and Class.- 5. Cool, Creative but not so Equal.- 6. Conclusions.

Notă biografică

Wing-Fai Leung is Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK.

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This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy. 

Addressing the intersections between issues of gender, age, ethnicity and class, the author interviews startup founders, including many husband and wife teams, in order to understand the working and private lives of digital entrepreneurs in and from Taiwan who utilise Internet and mobile technologies, against a backdrop of the country’s political, social and economic history. It investigates contemporary debates about entrepreneurship as they are experienced by new generations of start-uppers who challenge existing social and cultural norms by becoming creative workers and embracing the precarity that exists in the volatile digital economy.

Caracteristici

First major research endeavour to investigate gender and technical change in Taiwan and among female workers in Silicon Valley Examines entrepreneurs not as business owners or Asian capitalists, but focuses on the identities of the workers and their cultural and creative work Based on a wealth of original empirical research and first hand information