BCM206 | Week 4
The transaction cost of the network is knowledge. Knowledge is the power source for the survival of the network. Comparing the network to an industrial factory, the worker becomes intelligence, the factory becomes information machines and the assembly line is the process of information.
The new digital online network economy is distinguished by its three features; global, intangible and intensely interlinked. (Bradwell, P and Reeves, R, 2008) With the network being able to be connected to anywhere over anything or anyone that contains knowledge, thus bring the idea of a liquid life. Especially in our COVID-19 times separating the “work” from “the home”. The line between labour and leisure gets blurred in the network for the “knowledge worker” and it becomes harder for workers in this social media industry to describe what is actually counted as work. (Gregg, M 2013) For wanted to work in this industry in the future it’s important for me to decipher now that I’m study it what the industry is coming to be, learning from its history.
References:
– Peter Bradwell and Richard Reeves, Network Citizens, Power and responsibility at work, 2008, p. 26)
– Melissa Gregg, Function creep, communication technologies and anticipatory labour in the information workspace, 2013)
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