{"id":198,"date":"2007-04-16T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T11:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2008-09-08T18:04:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:04:51","slug":"technobohemians-or-the-new-cybertariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/texts\/technobohemians-or-the-new-cybertariat","title":{"rendered":"Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"float\" src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gill.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"gill.jpg\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkcultures.org\/networknotebooks\/\">The Institute of Network Cultures<\/a> published an insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/collections\/genderInstitute\/whosWho\/profiles\/gill.htm\">Rosalind Gill<\/a>. <strong><em>Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web<\/em><\/strong>, is based on 40 &#8216;semi-structured&#8217; interviews with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information architects, &#8230;). Her study reveals the often precarious situations web workers find themselves in, but most of all her analysis and critique of their (our?) egalitarian self-image, makes it a Must-Read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is striking to see that two of the three people who commented on this issue (racism &#8211; FS) were themselves immigrants to The Netherlands; it simply did not seem to be visible or worthy of comment to others of our participants &#8211; a tendency which tells us a great deal about the normalization and power of whiteness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkcultures.org\/_uploads\/17.pdf\">Download the publication<\/a><br \/>\nLecture Rosalind Gill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decadeofwebdesign.org\/videos\/day_2\/encoded\/1mbs\/22_gill230205.mp4\">http:\/\/www.decadeofwebdesign.org\/videos\/day_2\/encoded\/1mbs\/22_gill230205.mp4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Network Cultures published an insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist Rosalind Gill. Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web, is based on 40 &#8216;semi-structured&#8217; interviews with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information architects, &#8230;). Her study reveals the often precarious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[31,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}