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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Comrades! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">I work at Intel Corporation and am currently writing a history of management theory and productivity technologies in the workplace. I wrote about this
<a href="https://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2014-March/004935.html">here</a> earlier.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">My previous book <a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745650289">
Work’s Intimacy</a> (Polity, 2011) is a 3 year study of white collar workers dealing with ‘presence bleed’ in information jobs mediated by always-on devices.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">I have a background in affect theory as the co-editor of
<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Affect-Theory-Reader/">The Affect Theory Reader</a> (with Greg Seigworth, Duke 2010). My essay in that collection, ‘On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affect in the Age of the Cubicle’ remains true to my life, perhaps
now more than ever <span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">I also write about the <a href="http://tvn.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/08/31/1527476414547774.abstract?rss=1">
labor of data</a> and of <a href="http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/spousebusting">
care</a> in various ways. A recent piece with Jack Qiu and Kate Crawford is ‘<a href="http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/540">Circuits of Labor: A Labor Theory of the iPhone Era’</a>. See here for copies of things:
<a href="https://intel.academia.edu/MelissaGregg">https://intel.academia.edu/MelissaGregg</a>
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I am one of the organizers of the Civic Hacking panel at the upcoming conference, and just finished a draft paper arising out of shared research with other panelists/collaborators in the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. ‘Hack for Good:
Speculative labor, app development and the burden of austerity’ is something I will address in November and I am happy to share this with anyone who has an interest in the topic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">The work of so many people on this list has been hugely inspiring for me over the years and I look forward to meeting again in November. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Melissa <o:p></o:p></p>
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