Doctor of work blogging

Abigail Schoneboom has put her PhD on-line.

The subject is work blogging.

The title and abstract:

Hiding Out: Creative Resistance Among Anonymous Workbloggers

Anonymous workbloggers -- employees who write online diaries about their work -- are often simultaneously productive workers and savage critics of the organizational cultures in which they toil.

Looking at how bloggers indulge their creative and political aspirations while "hiding out" in office jobs, this research assesses the potential of blogging to transcend individualized cynicism and contribute to the critical transformation of work.

Broadly surveying media and organizational responses to the workblogging phenomenon, and engaging in ethnographic study of anonymous workbloggers on both sides of the Atlantic, my dissertation explores the relationship between emerging networked technologies and resistance.

Considering workers as authors, it documents the diversion of significant creative and intellectual resources away from the labor process.

Situating workbloggers within a rich tradition of iconoclastic literary and artistic responses to work, it explores whether embedded writers, in spite of their ambivalence about the alternative, can constitute an effective counter-hegemonic force.

From the following link you can access the full PhD as well as three papers based around the doctoral thesis.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

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