From "Fishbowl" to "Switchboard"
This week, I read the chapter, 'Networked Work' in Raine and Wellman's (2012) Networked. If you didn't read this chapter or just did a quick skim, you are in the right place. The chapter begins with a trip to the past, where workplaces were filled with workers (mainly men) sitting in their own offices, working 9-5 jobs, interacting face-to-face. Pens, papers and the occasional phone call were common and work itself never came home. Now, we flash forward to the workspace today, where networked work and organizations are commonplace. Networked work in Networked Organizations Raine and Wellman (2012) identify 5 related trends: With the rise in globalization of work, consumerism and travel, workers and companies are able to connect with more colleagues and customers There has been a shift from atom work (work in material economy: mining, making, transporting) to bit work (selling, describing, analyzing through words and pictures). There has been a rise...