Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality
An East Asian Perspective
Authors: Leung, Wing-Fai
Free Preview- First major research endeavour to investigate gender and technical change in Taiwan and among female workers in Silicon ValleyExamines entrepreneurs not as business owners or Asian capitalists, but focuses on the identities of the workers and their cultural and creative workBased on a wealth of original empirical research and first hand information
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- About this book
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This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy.
Addressing the intersections between issues of gender, age, ethnicity and class, the author interviews startup founders, including many husband and wife teams, in order to understand the working and private lives of digital entrepreneurs in and from Taiwan who utilise Internet and mobile technologies, against a backdrop of the country’s political, social and economic history. It investigates contemporary debates about entrepreneurship as they are experienced by new generations of start-uppers who challenge existing social and cultural norms by becoming creative workers and embracing the precarity that exists in the volatile digital economy.
- About the authors
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Wing-Fai Leung is Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-43
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Family Metaphor, the Geek and the Entrepreneurial Ideal
Pages 45-83
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Girls in Tech: Progress and Barriers in a Gendered Culture
Pages 85-123
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Luxury Chairs and Pizzas: The Production of Social Spaces and Class
Pages 125-159
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Cool, Creative, But Not so Equal
Pages 161-196
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality
- Book Subtitle
- An East Asian Perspective
- Authors
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- Wing-Fai Leung
- Series Title
- Dynamics of Virtual Work
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-97523-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-97523-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-97522-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07366-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 226
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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