SESSION D: ATTENTION, ELITISM, AND VOLUNTEERISM: INTERROGATING MODES OF LABOR

  • Nov 13, 2009 2:15–5:00PM

How Play Works Out and Work Plays Out in an Attention-Centered Economy, Michael Goldhaber; Old Skill, New Skill, or No Skill, Paolo Carpignano; Volunteerism at Global Voices, Ivan Sigal. Moderator: Julia Sonnevend.

Speakers

  • Paolo Carpignano Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at The New School and coordinator of the MA/PhD program in the sociology of media

  • Michael H. Goldhaber Writer and Consultant living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

  • Ivan Sigal Executive Director of Global Voices

  • Julia Sonnevend Doctoral Student in Communications at Columbia University, a visiting fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology (Yale University), the Center on Organizational Innovation (Columbia University), and the Center for Media and Communications Studies (Central European University).

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