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The Reputation Economy - by Alessandro Gandini (Hardcover)

The Reputation Economy - by  Alessandro Gandini (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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, <i>The Reputation Economy </i>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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. </p>

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