Thanks new media, I’m eternally grateful for your contribution to the break down on menial labour and tedious office work. Instead pencil pushers, wage slaves and desk jockeys, we have flexi-workers, cybertariants and technobohemians. Titles of which sound far more appealing and to be honest, fun. A sentiment i know many of my new media colleagues share.
With great innovations in new media; examples include skype, google docs, shoutbox; the face of modern employment has been drastically altered. Prior to our information age, there were the pre- industrial and industrialised labour periods, both characterised by the hands on application of labour. These days work is intangible and done around the clock. In this weeks additional reading Thompson suggests that the speed in which work can be done due to new media has begun funding corporate bottom lines. “Time is now currency; it is not passed but spent”. Corporate professionals working in this age take work home, juggle several projects at a time and as a result are now experiencing a poor work/life balance. And when work becomes life there is the potential of this happening ...
REFERENCE
Gill, R. (2007). Informality is the New Black. In Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat?New Media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures: 24-30 & 38-43.
E. P. Thompson, 1967, Time, Work-Discipline & Industrial Capitalism, p. 304, my emphasis
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Blakelewisfan1. " YouTube - boredom.wmv ." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. www.youtube.com/watch?v=drhq8szZiUk.
Lockergnome. " YouTube - The Office : Second Life is the same ." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3d_fqDcN1s.
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"You're welcome.." You're welcome.. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://generationrepulic.blogspot.com/
"Skype - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
"Google Docs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_docs
"Shoutbox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoutbox
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Blakelewisfan1. " YouTube - boredom.wmv ." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. www.youtube.com/watch?v=drhq8szZiUk.
Lockergnome. " YouTube - The Office : Second Life is the same ." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3d_fqDcN1s.
(Links)
"You're welcome.." You're welcome.. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://generationrepulic.blogspot.com/
"Skype - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
"Google Docs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_docs
"Shoutbox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoutbox
Great blog hannah. This is very true with regards to the way in which the corporate world is now heading. New media and internet technologies have improved the work place structure and have therefore made workers perfom a lot more efficiently. However, due to the company improving it's way, the worker does not benefit. New media careers could give new meaning the term 'working 24/7'.
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