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Dynamics of Virtual Work
Series Editors
Ursula Huws, Analytica Social and Economic Research,
London, UK
Rosalind Gill, Department of Sociology, City, University of
London, London, UK
Technological change has transformed where people work, when and
how. Digitisation of information has altered labour processes out of all
recognitionwhilsttelecommunicationshaveenabledjobstoberelocated
globally. ICTs have also enabled the creation of entirely new types of
‘digital’ or ‘virtual’ labour, both paid and unpaid, shifting the border-
line between ‘play’ and ‘work’ and creating new types of unpaid labour
connected with the consumption and co-creation of goods and services.
This affects private life as well as transforming the nature of work and
people experience the impacts differently depending on their gender,
their age, where they live and what work they do. Aspects of these
changeshavebeenstudiedseparatelybymanydifferentacademicexperts
however up till now a cohesive overarching analytical framework has
been lacking. Drawing on a major, high-profile COST Action (Euro-
pean Cooperation in Science and Technology) Dynamics of Virtual
Work, this series will bring together leading international experts from
a wide range of disciplines including political economy, labour soci-
ology,economicgeography,communicationsstudies,technology,gender
studies, social psychology, organisation studies, industrial relations and
developmentstudiestoexplorethetransformationofworkandlabourin
the Internet Age. The series will allow researchers to speak across disci-
plinary boundaries, national borders, theoretical and political vocabu-
laries, and different languages to understand and make sense of contem-
porary transformations in work and social life more broadly. The book
series will build on and extend this, offering a new, important and intel-
lectuallyexcitinginterventionintodebatesaboutworkandlabour,social
theory, digital culture, gender, class, globalisation and economic, social
and political change.
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Mascha Will-Zocholl Caroline Roth-Ebner
Editors
Topologies of Digital
Work
How Digitalisation and Virtualisation
Shape Working Spaces and Places
Editors
MaschaWill-Zocholl Caroline Roth-Ebner
Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany University of Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt, Austria
Dynamics ofVirtualWork
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Contents
1 Introduction toTopologies of DigitalWork 1
MaschaWill-Zocholl and Caroline Roth-Ebner
Part I Geographies of DigitalWork
2 The Geography of the Digital Freelance Economy
in Russia and Beyond 19
Andrey Shevchuk, Denis Strebkov, and AlexeyTyulyupo
3 Supporting the Global Digital Games Industry:
Outsourcing Games Production in Poland
and Estonia 51
Anna Ozimek
4 Automating Labour and the Spatial Politics of Data
CentreTechnologies 77
Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter
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Part II Places ofWork
5 Doing Homework Again: Places of Work
from a Historical Perspective 105
Christian Oggolder
6 The Spatial Production of Wanghong: Political
Economy, Labour Mobility and the “Unlikely”
Creativity 121
Jian Lin
7 ReconfiguringWorkplaces in Urban and Rural Areas:
A Case Study of Shibuya and Shirahama, Japan 149
Keita Matsushita
Part III VirtualWorking Spaces
8 ICT Enforced Boundary Work: Availability
as a Sociomaterial Practice 173
Calle Rosengren, Ann Bergman, and Kristina Palm
9 Virtual Spaces, Intermediate Places: Doing Identity
in ICT-EnabledWork 197
Dominik Klaus and Jörg Flecker
10 The Duality of the Physical and Virtual Worlds
ofWork 225
Ingrid Nappi and Gisele de Campos Ribeiro
Part IV Synopsis
11 Synopsis:HowSpaceandPlaceMatterintheContext
of DigitalWork 263
Caroline Roth-Ebner and MaschaWill-Zocholl
Index 285
Notes on Contributors
Ann Bergman was professor of Working Life Science at Karlstad
University, Sweden.Tragically, she passed away from an aggressive brain
tumourduringtheprocessoffinalisingherchaptertothisanthology.Her
researchinterestswerewithinthefieldsofgender,workandfamily,segre-
gation and inequality, working conditions and well-being, and future
studies. Bergman was involved in several national and international
research projects in the field of critical working life studies. Her most
recentresearchfocusedonthedigitalisationofwork,workingconditions,
and work–life boundaries.Together with Jan Ch.Karlsson she wrote the
bookMethodsforSocialTheory:AnalyticalToolsforTheorizingandWriting
(2017, Routledge).
Gisele de Campos Ribeiro works as an Associate Professor at Paris
School of Business, France. She graduated in Statistics from UFPR
in Brazil, and she has a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Management
Sciences, both from Paris-Dauphine University in France. Her research
interests are in marketing and consumer behaviour, workplace manage-
ment, employee well-being and productivity, the Internet of Things
(IoT) applications in the workplace, and the psychological process
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linking office employees and their workplaces. Her research has been
published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research,
and the Journal of Corporate Real Estate, among others.
Jörg Flecker hasbeenafullprofessorofSociologyattheDepartmentof
Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria, since 2013. He was the scien-
tific director of the Working Life Research Centre (FORBA) in Vienna
from 1991 to 2013. His main research areas are labour process analysis,
informationtechnology,industrialrelations,thelabourmarket,aswellas
social change and the political far right. He is the editor of Space, Place
andGlobalDigitalWork (2016,PalgraveMacmillan),theauthorofArbeit
undBeschäftigung (2017,UTB)andtheco-authorofTheClassOriginof
Young Blue-CollarWorkers andTheir Commitment toWork (2020, Sage).
Dominik Klaus is a Ph.D. researcher at the Department of Sociology,
University ofVienna, Austria, and a lecturer at theVienna University of
Business and Economics. In his Ph.D. project, he focuses on the blur-
ring boundaries of work, new technologies, and aspects of recognition.
His research interests include new forms of employment, virtual work,
knowledge work, and sustainable work.
Jian Lin is assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism
Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research
interests include cultural industries, social media culture, platform
studies, and Chinese contemporary culture.
Keita Matsushita is a professor at the Faculty of Sociology at Kansai
University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University for
his study of the impact of new media technology on school educa-
tion. His main research interests are workstyle, workplace, and media
communication. He has conducted many research projects and work-
shops for workplace design and social innovation in urban or local
areaswithmajorJapanesecompanies.HispublicationsincludeWorkstyles
in Mobile Media Society (Keisoshobo, 2019), Various Phases of Internet
Society (Gakubunsya, 2015), Digital Natives and Social Media (Kyoiku
Hyoronsya, 2012).
