Neff,
Gina
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004 |
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Office: CMU 355
Phone: 543-4866
E-Mail: gneff@u.washington.edu Gina Neff, Assistant Professor, studies the relationship
between society and communication technologies, as well as
between culture and communication. Her research focuses on
1) how work, communication technologies, and organizational
structures relate to one another and 2) the commercial production
of mediated culture in communication industries. Her current
research projects include a book manuscript entitled Venture
Labor on work and discourses of risk in high-tech firms,
a project on internships and the entry-level labor market
in communication industries, and on-going documentation of
organizational challenges that high-tech and innovative industries
face. She holds both a Ph.D. in sociology and a B.A. in economics
and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.
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Selected Publications
Surviving the New Economy, Boulder, CO: Paradigm
Publishers, forthcoming 2006, edited with John Amman &
Tris Carpenter.
The
Changing Place of Cultural Production: Locating Social Networks
in a Digital Media Industry, The Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, 597 (2005):
134-152.
Entrepreneurial
Labor among Cultural Producers: “Cool” Jobs in
“Hot” Industries, Social Semiotics,
15 (2005): 307-334, with Elizabeth Wissinger & Sharon
Zukin. Permanently
Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era, in
Philip Howard and Steve Jones, eds., Society Online: The
Internet in Context, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003, pp
173–188, with David Stark. |
