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Neff, Gina
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004
Office: CMU 355
E-Mail: gneff@uw.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.
Selected Publications
The Lure of Risk: Surviving and Welcoming Uncertainty in the New Economy, in Amman, Carpenter, Neff, eds., Surviving the New Economy. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007, pp 33-46.
Surviving the New Economy, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007, 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.
