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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I LOVE how you drew the connection of a blurred line between work and leisure to the COVID 19 pandemic. It really made me think that this pandemic is a personified structure of a “Liquid Life”. I spoke about this same aspect in my blog post, here is a more recent article of Mark Deuze (2011), his overarching argument is that media has become omnipresent to a degree that people no longer live with, but in media. How’s that for another layer? That especially applies to your COVID post as we have no choice but to live in media to connect to our uni degree for example
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