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Indlæser... Don't Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation Economyaf S. Craig Watkins
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I could not read this Early Reviewers selection. The author seems to think that the gig economy is brand new and only active in the tech industry. I have been in the gig industry for decades and not in the tech industry. Also, he repeats catch phrases over and over as if he is trying to "brand" them, but the tactic only succeeded in boring me. I wish the book had been about the mulitfaceted gig economy and how to use it well, but it is not.This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Millennials may find this book interesting and informative. Watkins tells stories about young people who are using their skills and "side" hustles to start full-fledged businesses and create opportunities for others. Strong emphasis on technological skills and opportunities, Watkins also focus on those soft-skills that helps young people become entrepreneurs. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This book looks at the various alternate ways you're generations participate in and change economic behavior. These are the young creatives who do technological innovations in this century. Helping women to be a better contributor through STEM education. African American demonstrating their proper recognition through the Black Girls Code or the Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (web series). Dear White People and crowd power. This books started a little slow but as the author Craig Watkins developed his story, I got much more invested. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This book discusses the new economy that millennials are dealing with. I was expecting just a discussion of the tech economy and how most people will be short-term contract workers in this new economy. This was a key focus, but there were also chapters that covered the issues of women and minorities being underrepresented in these fields. I did feel like there was some repetition, but overall the book had some interesting material. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. It wasn't that bad, overall, with some good and timely examples of how people are taking advantage of current technology to avoid traditional barriers to entry, but I worry that it's part of a trend to glamorize "gig" culture and fetishize the fundamental economic instability it engenders. That is, there could be pernicious consequences to emphasizing the specific virtues that ameliorate the ills of economic displacement.ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Offers a timely analysis of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of young people who cobble together the resources they need to pursue the lives and careers they want. Young adults are coming of age at a time when work is temporary, underpaid, incommensurate with their education, or downright unsatisfying. Despite these challenges, media scholar S. Craig Watkins argues that this moment of precarity is rife with opportunities for innovation, and that young adults are leading the charge in turning that into an inventive and surprisingly sustainable future. As a result, society is expanding its understanding of who we think of as innovators and what qualifies as innovation, while wealth is spreading beyond traditional corridors of powerful tech companies, venture capitalism, and well-endowed universities. Drawing on over ten years of interviews and data, Watkins reveals the radical ways in which this community of ambitious young creatives is transforming businesses from the outside in. Diverse perspectives that are often ignored or silenced by major corporations are garnering public attention as women and people of color are redefining industries across the globe--all from their computer screens. We meet people like Prince Harvey, a New York-based hip-hop artist who recorded his album entirely on an Apple showroom laptop; screenwriter, producer, and actor Issa Rae, who first used YouTube and Kickstarter to develop the web series that became her hit HBO show Insecure; the Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit organization created by product design student Veronika Scott in Detroit; and start-up companies like Qeyno Group in San Francisco and Juegos Rancheros in Austin that help make tech more accessible to people of color. Forward-thinking and dynamic, Don't Knock the Hustle shows the diversity and complexity of a generation on the rise. UNIQUE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING MILLENNIALS that looks beyond stereotypes about their relationships with tech and labor, based on two years of MacArthur Grant-funded research. DIVERSE AUDIENCE APPEAL that will reach millennials, educators, people seeking to hire millennials, and scholars of technology, media, and labor. No library descriptions found. |
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