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The Reputation Economy

Understanding Knowledge Work in Digital Society

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. The Rise of a Freelance Economy

    • Alessandro Gandini
    Pages 13-25
  3. Understanding Digital Work as Venture Labour

    • Alessandro Gandini
    Pages 85-95
  4. Coworking: The Freelance Mode of Organisation?

    • Alessandro Gandini
    Pages 97-105
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 117-131

About this book

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, The Reputation Economy 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

    Alessandro Gandini

About the author

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. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Reputation Economy

  • Book Subtitle: Understanding Knowledge Work in Digital Society

  • Authors: Alessandro Gandini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56107-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56105-3Published: 21 June 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56107-7Published: 02 June 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 131

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Online Marketing/Social Media, Business Consulting

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eBook USD 49.99
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Hardcover Book USD 64.99
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