{"id":346,"date":"2011-10-11T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T23:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=346"},"modified":"2011-10-11T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T23:20:46","slug":"aoir-taking-place-in-seattle-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"AoIR taking place in Seattle this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference is in Seattle this week, and promises an exciting line-up of panels, keynote speakers, and events. \u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/ir12.aoir.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> for the conference program and <a href=\"http:\/\/aoir.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> to learn more about AoIR in general. If you can&#8217;t make it to the conference you can always follow the AoIR Tweets, which are tagged with #ir12.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I gave a talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=242\" target=\"_blank\">online labor, a topic that I have mentioned in previous posts<\/a>. \u00a0My talk dealt with the pros and cons of being an online laborer in one particular community that I have studied. \u00a0The pros I discussed included enhanced feelings of freedom and flexibility vis-a-vis the work; better choices for jobs and new opportunities for professional development; and the chance to engage in meaningful communication with clients and colleagues alike. \u00a0The cons that I included in my talk were increased surveillance and monitoring; the control of employee communication through the use of service scripts; and tensions between increasing the scale of communication services and having to (de)personalize service communication.<\/p>\n<p>This is a topic that I am increasingly interested in, so please do contact me if you&#8217;d like to learn more about this research.<\/p>\n<p>What books, articles, and\/or websites on the subject of online labor do you recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference is in Seattle this week, and promises an exciting line-up of panels, keynote speakers, and events. \u00a0See this link for the conference program and this one to learn more about AoIR in general. If you can&#8217;t make it to the conference you can always follow the AoIR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}