388 results on '"Silicon valley"'
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2. Being in North Korea
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Glyn Ford
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Economics and Econometrics ,Silicon valley ,Asia pacific ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Institution ,Economic history ,Law ,Research center ,media_common - Abstract
North Koreans are normal, like us. That's the message from someone who spent a decade working in Pyongyang, Wonsan and Rason plus Pyongsong – the North's partial answer to Silicon Valley. Abrahamia...
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3. Creature Comforts: Neoliberalism and Preparing for Disaster
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Emily Ray
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Politics ,Silicon valley ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political economy ,Political science ,Neoliberalism (international relations) ,Suite ,Ideology ,media_common - Abstract
This article examines the ideological trends in Silicon Valley and how that influences the way Americans prepare for climatic, political, and economic disaster. The suite of ideas called the Dark E...
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- 2021
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4. Contested Spaces, Shared Concerns
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Kenneth Saintonge, Nicholas Jordan, Sarah Stutts, and Christina Wasson
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Truck ,Silicon valley ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Public relations ,Social constructionism ,Car drivers ,Sociology ,Ideology ,business ,Sociocultural evolution ,Research center ,Road user ,media_common - Abstract
Roadways are sociocultural spaces constructed for human travel which embody intersections of technology, transportation, and culture. In order to navigate these spaces successfully, autonomous vehicles must be able to respond to the needs and practices of those who use the road. We conducted research on how cyclists, solid waste truck drivers, and crossing guards experience the driving behaviors of other road users, to inform the development of autonomous vehicles. We found that the roadways were contested spaces, with each road user group enacting their own social constructions of the road. Furthermore, the three groups we worked with all felt marginalized by comparison with car drivers, who were ideologically and often physically dominant on the road. This article is based on research for the Nissan Research Center - Silicon Valley, which took place as part of a Design Anthropology course at the University of North Texas.
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- 2020
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5. Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Techno-Optimism: Examining Outer Space Utopias of Silicon Valley
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Richard Jc Tutton
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Cultural Studies ,Engineering ,Architectural engineering ,Health (social science) ,Sociotechnical system ,Silicon valley ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Human spaceflight ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Biomedical Engineering ,Outer space ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,Optimism ,History and Philosophy of Science ,business ,Biotechnology ,media_common - Abstract
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have been investing in improving human spaceflight capabilities through the development of reusable rockets to greatly reduce the cost of orbital launches. One such ent...
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- 2020
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6. Synaesthetic Architecture: A Building Dreams
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Refik Anadol
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Hollywood ,Silicon valley ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Architecture ,Art ,Magenta ,media_common ,Visual arts ,Field conditions - Published
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7. Madres emprendedoras, entrepreneurial mothers: Reflections from a community-based participatory action research course with Mexican immigrant madres in the Silicon Valley
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Irene E. Cermeño, Jesica Siham Fernández, Laura Nichols, Patricia Rodriguez, and Alma R. Orozco
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Community based ,Silicon valley ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political Science and International Relations ,Pedagogy ,Immigration ,Photovoice ,Participatory action research ,Sociology ,media_common - Published
- 2020
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8. The Silicon Doctrine
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Aitor Jimenez
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Underpinning ,Social contract ,Silicon valley ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,silicon valley ,google ,Doctrine ,digital capitalism ,lcsh:P87-96 ,lcsh:Communication. Mass media ,Computer Science Applications ,Shock (economics) ,platforms ,lcsh:HT51-1595 ,Political science ,lcsh:Communities. Classes. Races ,Ideology ,Digital economy ,law ,facebook ,media_common ,Law and economics - Abstract
This article explores and theorises what is here termed the Silicon Doctrine (SD), that is the legal ideology underpinning the libertarian version of the digital economy promoted (among others) by Facebook, Uber, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. The first part of the text explores the Silicon Doctrine’s Frankensteinian ideological roots. The second part of the text scrutinises three dimensions of the Silicon Doctrine: 1) data extraction; 2) domination of the informational infrastructure; and 3) labour exploitation. This article examines the social contract proposed by Silicon Valley, evaluating its two-sided role as a disruptive breakout from the twentieth century social model, and as a continuation of the neoliberal shock doctrine.
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- 2020
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9. Margaret Pugh O’Mara. The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. New York: Penguin Press, 2019. 512 pp. ISBN 978-0-399-56218-1, $30.00 (cloth), 978-0-399-56220-4, $20.00 (paper)
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J. A. Estruth
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History ,Code (set theory) ,Silicon valley ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Art history ,Art ,media_common - Published
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10. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
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Dan M. Kotliar
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History ,Silicon valley ,Publishing ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Computer Science (miscellaneous) ,Economic history ,business ,Corporation ,Democracy ,media_common - Abstract
Decades before Cambridge Analytica algorithmically manipulated voters on both sides of the Atlantic, before Silicon Valley data barons threatened to disrupt democracy worldwide, and before social m...
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- 2021
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11. Ethical citizenship and global development
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Anke Schwittay
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Microfinance ,Silicon valley ,law ,Anthropology ,Political science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate social responsibility ,Public administration ,International development ,Citizenship ,law.invention ,media_common - Abstract
Departing from Aihwa Ong’s influential analysis of citizenship as a Foucauldian cultural project of subject-making, this contribution examines three global development citizen-subjects: transnation...
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- 2020
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12. Silicon Headquarters : The Architectural Faces of Digital Capitalism
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Thomas Schmidt-Lux
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Materiality (auditing) ,Silicon valley ,Silicon ,chemistry ,Aesthetics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Art ,Space (commercial competition) ,Capitalism ,Architecture ,media_common - Abstract
Although digitalization processes are frequently described as being immaterial and ‘virtual’, the importance of material space and architecture in the Silicon Valley is evident. Just recently new headquarters of Apple, Facebook and Google have opened. Based on walk-throughs, interviews, documents and photography, the essay analyses their architecture and spatial organization. The analysis reveals that there is no single, uniform form of contemporary corporate architecture in Silicon Valley, just as there is no coherent picture of the digital. Google builds accessible and permeable, Facebook creates a built community, while Apple builds its very own world, similarly hiding and exposing it. Thus, the analysis of architecture reveals different conceptions of an often monolithically described field.
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- 2020
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13. Closing the Digital Entrepreneurship Gap the Case of Returnee Entrepreneurs in Morocco
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Robert Wentrup, Patrik Ström, and H. Richard Nakamura
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Entrepreneurship ,Silicon valley ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Closing (real estate) ,Internationalization ,Market economy ,0502 economics and business ,050211 marketing ,Internet penetration ,Business ,Emerging markets ,050203 business & management ,media_common - Abstract
Despite the growing rates of Internet penetration and inflows of returnee entrepreneurs (REs) from Silicon Valley, there are still few examples of successful digital entrepreneurship ventures from emerging markets reaching international markets. Positioning itself at the intersection of returnee entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship and internationalization, this article is based on the case studies of the REs starting up digital ventures in Morocco. The results show that Moroccan digital entrepreneurship is driven by well-educated REs with working experience from the United States and Europe. These entrepreneurs play a dominant role in fostering the local digital entrepreneurship scene, and they have an international ambition in their ventures from the outset. The dominance of the REs also reveals vulnerability in the local digital ecosystem—reluctance of the indigenous business community to engage in the digital sector and a lack of domestic investors, programmers and start-up clusters. However, Moroccan digital start-ups struggle with the fierce competition among the global Internet firms, which benefit from an underdeveloped policy framework. This article contributes new insights to the complexity of the returnee and digital entrepreneurship and demonstrates the pivotal role of Moroccan REs in the country’s trajectory towards closing the extant digital entrepreneurship gap vis-à-vis developed markets.
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- 2019
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14. Network, reputation, VC-financing: SME in Zhongguancun and Silicon Valley
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Anna Trunina, Muhammad Hafeez, Xielin Liu, Swati Anindita Sarker, and Jian Chen
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Attractiveness ,Finance ,Silicon valley ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,New Ventures ,Venture capital ,Investment (macroeconomics) ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,0502 economics and business ,050211 marketing ,Business ,China ,050203 business & management ,Reputation ,media_common - Abstract
Purpose This paper aims to investigate if the collaboration intensity of the company with local and international stakeholders facilitates the attracting of venture capital (VC) financing. The reputation of the company was incorporated as a factor, which can potentially influence investment decision-making. The study also aims to make a cross-national comparison of new ventures financing in two innovation regions – Chinese Zhongguancun and American Silicon Valley. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative methodology involving data gathered from 176 venture-backed as well as non-venture backed SME located in Chinese Zhongguancun and American Silicon Valley was applied. The data has been gathered through a survey. A logistic regression model has been adopted to test the hypotheses and explore relationships among concerned variables. Findings The results spotlight that collaboration intensity with the company’s domestic stakeholders could enhance the attractiveness of the company for external investments. Collaboration intensity with foreign stakeholders increases the likelihood of acquiring financial support only for Chinese companies. For American companies, the reputation of their stakeholders did not show a significant effect. However, positive reputation acquired from the Chinese company’s stakeholders enhances the chance of getting funding and moderates the investment effect of collaboration intensity with domestic stakeholders. Originality/value This paper unfolds that the network strength and the reputation of the SME could play the role in getting VC investment. The results are shown in two different contexts (Silicon Valley in the USA and Zhongguancun in China), characterizing the completely different cultural, legal, institutional and operating environments.
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15. A New Utopia: A Political History of the Silicon Valley, 1945 to 1995
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J. A. Estruth
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History ,Silicon valley ,Utopia ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Political history ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Ancient history ,media_common - Published
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16. Female Transnational Entrepreneurs (FTEs): A Case Study of Korean American Female Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
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Jane Yeonjae Lee and June Y. Lee
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Economics and Econometrics ,Entrepreneurship ,Silicon valley ,Field (Bourdieu) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ,Immigration ,Ethnic group ,Development ,0506 political science ,Korean americans ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,Female entrepreneurs ,050602 political science & public administration ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Narrative ,Demographic economics ,Economic geography ,Business and International Management ,050203 business & management ,Diversity (politics) ,media_common - Abstract
Increasingly, studies of entrepreneurship and migration have examined the role of immigrant entrepreneurs in revitalising and diversifying the economy of the host society. Further, recent transnational skilled entrepreneurs have been understood as being much more mobile in building international networks and collaborations between their home and host societies. These studies have tended to focus on the technically oriented entrepreneurs and to produce a single grand narrative about a particular migrant group that transfers knowledge and becomes a technical pioneer in their home society. This article scrutinises a group of first-generation Korean American female transnational entrepreneurs (FTEs) living in Silicon Valley and builds a nuanced understanding about the diversity and complexity of being transnational entrepreneurs. Through a multi-layered qualitative approach, the study illustrates that three major mechanisms are at play: 1) the ecosystem of Silicon Valley; 2) the dynamics of gender and ethnicity; and 3) the adoption to live in a transnational social field. These mechanisms shape the motivations, experiences, and performances of Korean American FTEs. This article reveals the contesting ways in which these three mechanisms work simultaneously with each other.
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17. Pathways toward Change: Ideologies and Gender Equality in a Silicon Valley Technology Company
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Alison T. Wynn
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Gender equality ,Silicon valley ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Organizational commitment ,Gender Studies ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,050903 gender studies ,Political science ,Political economy ,Organizational change ,0502 economics and business ,Ideology ,0509 other social sciences ,050203 business & management ,media_common ,Diversity (politics) - Abstract
Companies have devoted significant resources to diversity programs, yet such programs are often largely ineffective. Cultivating an organizational commitment to diversity is critical, but scholars lack a clear understanding of how top executives conceptualize change. In this article, I analyze data from a year-long case study of a Silicon Valley technology company implementing a gender equality initiative. The data include 50 in-depth interviews and observation of 80 executive meetings. I pay special attention to longitudinal interviews with 19 high-level executives and explore how their ideologies about inequality affected their change efforts. I find that executives tend to favor individualistic and societal explanations of gender differences and inequality, and these explanations correspond with change efforts focused mainly on altering individuals or affecting external communities. Executives rarely engaged in attempts to change the organization structurally. Thus, the implementation of gender equality remains limited by top executives’ ideas and assumptions about the sources of inequality.
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18. Bill Gates’ Guru: 'I'm Not Impressed With Silicon Valley.' 'I Don't Have a Cell Phone.' 'I Never Blog.'
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Vaclav Smil
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Silicon valley ,Phone ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Art ,Theology ,media_common - Published
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19. The case of computer science education, employment, gender, and race/ethnicity in Silicon Valley, 1980–2015
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June Park John and Martin Carnoy
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,Race ethnicity ,Silicon valley ,ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION ,Public Administration ,Higher education ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Ethnic group ,Personnel selection ,050301 education ,Education ,Representation (politics) ,ComputingMilieux_GENERAL ,Race (biology) ,0502 economics and business ,Demographic economics ,business ,0503 education ,Citizenship ,050203 business & management ,media_common - Abstract
We analyse race and gender trends in the Silicon Valley technology industry from 1980 to 2015, with a focus on education, employment and wages in computer science. Racial gaps in representation are...
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20. From Disruption to Innovation: Thoughts on the Future of MOOCs
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Sherman Young
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Higher education ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Connectivism ,lcsh:Education (General) ,Education ,Digital Life ,Scarcity ,0502 economics and business ,Sociology ,Implementation ,media_common ,connectivism ,cmooc ,business.industry ,digital age ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,silicon valley ,Public relations ,Information ecology ,disruption ,innovation ,Critical thinking ,Scale (social sciences) ,network ,050211 marketing ,xmooc ,mooc ,curricular design ,business ,lcsh:L7-991 ,0503 education - Abstract
Sherman Young - BSc, MA, PhD, Professor, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University. E-mail: sherman.young@mq.edu.auMOOCs have been heralded by some as disruptive of the higher education sector, but the reality is that they are examples of business rather than educational innovation. By enabling universities to focus on global scale and reach as they navigate the digital environment, current MOOCs largely sustain existing learning practices rather than force pedagogical reconfiguration. Implementations to date have largely focussed on content delivery from superstar professors with little emphasis on the real needs of twenty-first century learners. We have reached a stage when all of our educational approaches need to be better suited for a new information ecology that has demonstrably different characteristics from the past. Information scarcity has given way to ubiquity and learners need the appropriate skills to thrive in a digital life and career-creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication. Whilst real innovation to address these challenges is already happening in both fully online and blended offerings at some institutions, they are not so common in the MOOC space. This paper argues that MOOCs offer an opportunity to truly disrupt learning at scale and become exemplars for real educational innovation.
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21. Entrepreneurial university dynamics: Structured ambivalence, relative deprivation and institution-formation in the Stanford innovation system
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Kaden Nelson Smith, Henry Etzkowitz, Eloïse Germain-Alamartine, Ekaterina Albats, Jisoo Keel, Caleb Kumar, Lappeenrannan-Lahden teknillinen yliopisto LUT, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, and fi=School of Business and Management|en=School of Business and Management
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Silicon valley ,Silicon Valley ,020209 energy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING ,02 engineering and technology ,Ambivalence ,medicine.disease_cause ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,Structured Ambivalence ,Entrepreneurial University ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,0502 economics and business ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Institution ,medicine ,Intermediate Ties ,Sociology ,Business and International Management ,Relative deprivation ,Applied Psychology ,media_common ,ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION ,05 social sciences ,Innovation system ,Regional innovation ,Dynamics (music) ,Political economy ,Stanford ,050203 business & management - Abstract
This article contributes to the debate over the entrepreneurial university. We utilize recent developments at Stanford as a laboratory to explore the entrepreneurial university transition, suggesting their relevance to academic institutions considering adopting this model. Exemplified by the relationship between Stanford University and Silicon Valley a vision emerged of the role of the university as a promoter of technological innovation. However, the development pathway of the entrepreneurial university is ill understood, even at Stanford, an iconic case. A gap opened up between Stanford and the Valley, due to an assumption of innovation as a laissez-faire phenomenon, despite close relations with firms that pre-dated Silicon Valley, and the more recent emergence of iconic firms, like CISCO and Google, from the university. In response, a series of translational and innovation support mechanisms have been founded, providing “intermediate ties” that link the academic and business worlds in a state of structured ambivalence. Post-print / Final draft
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22. Working Abroad in a Research Laboratory in the U.S
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Diego Angel Masini
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Silicon valley ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Software development ,Information security ,Public relations ,Computer Science Applications ,Hardware and Architecture ,Internship ,Technology transfer ,Dream ,On-the-job training ,business ,Software ,Career development ,media_common - Abstract
Many computer science students dream of the possibility of working abroad, usually at one of the big companies that define the course in technology, innovating and creating the most significant technology breakthroughs. I wasn't the exception. As a student at the Facultad de Informatica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, I always thought about working as a Software Developer in Silicon Valley for a couple of years. In my mind, accomplishing such a goal would provide me with sufficient insights to better perform in a company (or even start a new one) when returning to my home country. I figured I needed some time until I managed to achieve my goal, but I didn't actively pursue it. Looking back, it was a pretty straightforward path; however, at the moment, I did not know what the result would be.
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23. Will Biotechnology Stop Aging?
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Sarah Campbell
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0301 basic medicine ,Silicon valley ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Human life ,Longevity ,Biomedical Engineering ,General Medicine ,Immortality ,Biotechnology ,Life extension ,03 medical and health sciences ,Seekers ,030104 developmental biology ,0302 clinical medicine ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Humans ,Dream ,Psychology ,business ,media_common - Abstract
Could biotechnology stop aging? The answer may be yes, no, or something in between, depending on who is being asked and what it means to “stop” aging. For those at one end of the spectrum— life extension seekers (including some deep-pocketed Silicon Valley investors)—the answer is “yes.” They believe biotechnology will lengthen human life spans to range anywhere from 1,000 years to forever. But for most, the answer is more nuanced and in- volves a dream of extended healthspan , rather than immortality. They imagine a future in which people over the age of 65 years are healthy, active, independent, and not burdened by disease, and that this is the norm rather than the exception. “Healthspanners” believe that one day, science will delay the onset of aging-related conditions and, as a side-effect, modestly extend life. Aging as we know it—and dread it—could become ancient history.
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24. Silicon Valley: An Elusive Utopia?
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Chunyan Zhou
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Silicon valley ,Utopia (typeface) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,General Engineering ,Art ,Archaeology ,media_common - Published
- 2021
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25. Digital economy and labor
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Iris Bull and Ilana Gershon
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Silicon valley ,Sociotechnical system ,Work (electrical) ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Political science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Media studies ,Organizational culture ,Digital economy ,Reputation ,media_common ,Public intellectuals - Abstract
This chapter reviews some of that literature, which for many scholars has tended to come from and be about regions in North America and Europe. It focuses on popular beliefs that shape industry and academic perspectives of digital work, and reviews three types of field sites that often guide critical inquiry into modern practices of working with and through digital technologies: corporate culture in Silicon Valley, online work distribution platforms, and virtual games. Many popular ideas about digital work tend to come from a persistent focus on ‘creatives’ – a specific subgroup of people involved in developing and promoting computing technologies. Richard Florida may be the most influential thinker among a bevy of public intellectuals who cultivate a reputation for envisioning a utopic future of work on the World Wide Web. Florida’s positive outlook on the role of creatives is just one canonical example of widespread sociotechnical imaginaries about digital technologies and the people who use them.
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- 2021
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26. 'And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven': Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley
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Roberto Mata
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Silicon valley ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Reading (process) ,Heaven ,Art ,Ancient history ,media_common - Published
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27. Analog Algorithm – Landscapes of Machine Learning
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Susanne Huth
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Urban Studies ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,Landschaften ,Silicon Valley ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Fotografie ,HT101-395 ,Art ,Cities. Urban geography ,GF125 ,Humanities ,media_common - Abstract
In ihrem fotografischen Magazinbeitrag „Analog Algorithm – Landscapes of Machine Learning“, der auf ihrem gleichnamigen Buch basiert, nimmt uns die Fotografin Susanne Huth mit ins Silicon Valley, das Machtzentrum der technischen Innovation und der postindustriellen, neoliberalen Wirtschaftsordnung schlechthin. Mit ihren Arbeiten begibt sie sich auf einen Streifzug durch den etwa 70 Kilometer langen und 30 Kilometer breiten Landstrich in der San Francisco Bay Area, der Gegenstand globaler und kollektiver Fantasien zu sein scheint. Huths Bilder zeigen jedoch, dass es nicht ausreicht, lediglich über diesen Ort zu reden, zu behaupten, er habe mit seinen Technologien die Alltagsroutinen, Daten und digitale Identität einer jeden von uns erfasst und durchdrungen – ohne dass wir jemals da gewesen wären (Lübbke-Tidow 2020). Susanne Huths Schwarz-Weiß-Arbeiten brechen mit diesem Narrativ, indem sie das Silicon Valley als sozio-politischen Prozess beforschen, ihn als kulturelles Dispositiv begreifen und die strukturelle Transformation der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft zur Informationsgesellschaft nachzeichnen. Die dokumentierten Lagerhallen, Straßenzüge, Parkplätze, Gebäudekomplexe und Werbeplakate wirken nicht so schillernd oder innovativ wie die Marketingkampagnen der dort ansässigen Unternehmen, sondern brüchig und unspektakulär, fast schon alltäglich.
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- 2021
28. Expanding Opportunities through Research for Societal Impacts
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Juan E. Gilbert
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Demographic shift ,Silicon valley ,Computer science ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Institutional change ,Public relations ,Census ,Bachelor ,Underrepresented Minority ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,business ,media_common ,Simple (philosophy) ,Diversity (politics) - Abstract
According to the U.S. Census, the United States of America will become a majority-minority country by 2045. As the U.S. experiences this demographic shift, what will happen to computer science? Will our discipline become more inclusive? What shifts will occur in computer science? Computer science does not have a good record addressing its diversity challenges. A simple Google search for "Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem" really makes this clear. Further exploration into data from the Computing Research Association (CRA), shows how underrepresented minority groups are in computing at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral, and faculty levels. Can computer science improve its diversity during the demographic shift? Dr. Gilbert believes it is possible to change the demographics in computer science, but it will require a cultural shift in computing along with institutional change, starting with computer science education.
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29. The Tetris office: Flexwork, real estate and city planning in Silicon Valley North, Canada
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Filipa Pajević
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Silicon valley ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Economic rent ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,Flexibility (personality) ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Real estate ,02 engineering and technology ,Development ,Urban Studies ,Urban planning ,Order (exchange) ,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management ,Business ,Marketing ,050703 geography ,Autonomy ,media_common - Abstract
The spatial needs of knowledge workers — especially high-tech, digital workers — are of concern to digitizing companies. In order to attract and anchor talent, companies are experimenting with workplace strategies like “flexwork”, at the core of which is worker autonomy through flexible hours and workplaces. While flexwork is not new, it has been popularized by the rise of coworking, especially among the digital elites. Meanwhile, cities looking to promote economic growth are also focusing on the spatial preferences of such workers. This paper explores the motivation behind the adoption of flexwork, how this has been affecting office real estate, and how planners have reacted to these changes. Drawing from fieldwork and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with corporate consultants, real estate professionals and city planners in Canada's Silicon Valley North, I show how flexwork translates into a demand for flexible leases, which landlords seize as an opportunity to extract higher rents. This intensifies the need for flexibility, only this time for cost-saving purposes. City planners, while cognizant of this circular relationship between flexwork, flexible workplaces and rising rents, feel limited in their capacity to influence the real estate market. These insights are important considering the widespread adoption of flexwork at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis.
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- 2021
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30. The 'Silicon Valley of the Middle East'
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Kimeu W. Boynton and Anwar Ouassini
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Cybercrime ,Economic growth ,Silicon valley ,Middle East ,State (polity) ,Order (exchange) ,Political science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,International community ,Context (language use) ,Critical infrastructure ,media_common - Abstract
Cybercrime is a global problem and trends have indicated that the financial sector is a highly targeted area for cyber criminals. This chapter addresses the challenging problem of curtailing cybercrime for the Jamaican state. First, it explores the definition of cybercrime and cyber-security within the context of the agreed definitions used by the international community of states. Second, the chapter assesses Jamaica’s cyber-security strategies used in curbing cybercrimes. Third, it assesses the role of the hemispheric group, the Organization of American States (OAS), in shaping Jamaica’s cyber-security strategy. It also discusses cooperative mechanisms used in strengthening Jamaica’s cyber-security policies and laws in order to confront cybercrimes. The OAS plays an important role in assisting member states to strengthen their cyber-security capabilities in protecting their critical infrastructure from attacks. There are a number of commitment instruments spearheaded by the OAS to which member states governments signed up.
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31. Ex Machina: Technological Disruption and the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Writing
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John Campbell
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Silicon valley ,business.industry ,Anecdote ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Assertion ,lcsh:Law ,ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING ,legal writing ,Proof of concept ,Political science ,Practice of law ,Artificial intelligence ,empirical ,business ,legal technology ,Merge (version control) ,legal research ,lcsh:K ,media_common ,Legal writing ,Intuition - Abstract
Technology is disrupting the practice of law and revolutionizing how lawyers work. This revolution is made more powerful because it is increasingly coupled with a rigorous and scientific approach to the law. In some ways, law is looking more like a Silicon Valley startup and less like the oak-paneled law firms of the last 200 years. As law, technology, and science merge, the implications for the profession are wide-sweeping. This article explores persuasive legal writing, offering new thoughts on what the future will hold. Specifically, this article pilots a method for applying technology and science to measure, analyze and improve persuasive legal writing, offering it as a proof of concept that anchors the article’s broader, and perhaps more controversial assertion. Namely, more powerful and refined persuasive legal writing software tools, fueled by artificial intelligence, should and will disrupt and reshape significant portions of the legal space, including how legal writing is taught and how it is produced. The effect will be to view legal writing as more science, and less art. The next set of luminaries won’t rely on anecdote or intuition to teach or create legal writing; they will rely on software and data., University of Bologna Law Review, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020)
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32. Digital Nomos and the new world order: towards a theological critique of Silicon Valley
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Cristina Andrea Sereni
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digital nomos ,Silicon valley ,Silicon Valley ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Humanidades ,political theology ,Nomos ,Political theology ,T1-995 ,Narrative ,Sociology ,Technology (General) ,media_common ,H1-99 ,Multidisciplinary ,technocene ,General Social Sciences ,silicon valley ,World order ,Tecnoceno ,Mythology ,posthumanism ,Posthumanismo ,Epistemology ,Social sciences (General) ,Posthumanism ,Ideology - Abstract
Fil: Sereni, Cristina Andrea. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Estudios en Ciencia, Tecnología, Cultura y Desarrollo (CITECDE). Río Negro, Argentina. Among the dominant narratives that form the ideological substrate of global processes, we can identify powerful deterministic and substantivist mythologies about technology. The most influential of these is the worldview of Silicon Valley, as a producer and exporter of a political theology that holds that the impending civilizational crisis will find a technical solution. This worldview has colonized the daily life of the world, providing a new spatial ordering for our present temporality. Various critical currents have placed the substantivist-deterministic narrative in the context of an intellectual history linked to political theology, a conceptual framework that illuminates several functions of this narrative – chief among these, the function of legitimation. Therefore, the sociology of concepts proposed by Carl Schmitt allows us to identify the contradictions present within these contemporary narratives. Political theology, seen as the study of the structures and sources of political legitimacy, helps us elucidate the power that the Siliconian worldview exerts. Among other aspects, the framework of political theology highlights the fundamental invisibility of these mythologies, which is proportional to their power of domination, and sets the basis for a new digital nomos of the earth. Entre las narrativas dominantes que forman el sustrato ideológico de los procesos globales, podemos identificar poderosas mitologías de la tecnología de corte determinista y sustantivista. La más influyente es la cosmovisión de Silicon Valley como productora y exportadora de una teología política que plantea que la inminente crisis civilizatoria encontrará una solución técnica. Esta cosmovisión ha colonizado la vida cotidiana del mundo. Diversas corrientes críticas han situado la narrativa sustantivista-determinista en el contexto de una historia intelectual ligada a la teología política como marco conceptual que otorga sentido a varios aspectos de esta narrativa, cuya función principal es la legitimación. Por lo tanto, la sociología de los conceptos propuesta por Carl Schmitt permite identificar las contradicciones presentes dentro de dichas narrativas contemporáneas. La teología política vista como el estudio de las estructuras y las fuentes de la legitimidad política abre las puertas para dilucidar el poder de dominación que ejerce la cosmovisión siliconiana y entenderla como una teología política cuya característica fundamental es su invisibilidad, que es proporcional a su poder de dominación y sienta las bases de un nuevo nomos digital.
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33. Personhood for Synthetic Beings: Legal Parameters and Consequences of the Dawn of Humanlike Artificial Intelligence
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Daniel S. Osborne
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Matching (statistics) ,Silicon valley ,business.industry ,Personhood ,Suite ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Creativity ,Logical consequence ,Test (assessment) ,Civil rights ,Sociology ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,media_common - Abstract
There is a growing interest in Artificial Intelligence in tech hubs like Silicon Valley and in the world at large that is finally matching the ambition and creativity that movies and media have been producing for a very long time. This paper takes that cultural interest and economic investment to its logical conclusion and assumes that a humanlike Artificial Intelligence, or synthetic person, can and will be created in the near future. Then it considers what the law should do about that creation. Specifically, this paper argues that a test should be developed for whether a synthetic person can be granted personhood under the law before such test is needed. The tenets, if not the specifics, of such a test are outlined here that provide for a synthetic person that is intelligent, social, self-conscious, and individualized. But that is only half the problem. If a synthetic person can be created, one that passes a pre-determined test that allows it to access legal standing, to what sorts of rights and responsibilities does it have access? In light of the kind of synthetic person that could pass the test, four potential outcomes for rights for a synthetic person are addressed ranging from none to a full suite of human civil rights.
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34. The Digital Shop Window: The Social Media Newsroom as a Communicative Hub
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Dominik Ruisinger
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Focus (computing) ,Silicon valley ,History ,Press release ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Media studies ,Window (computing) ,Social media ,Praise ,Customer relationship management ,business ,media_common - Abstract
February 17, 2006: “Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die.” Tom Foremski, an influential journalist in Silicon Valley, had finally had enough of the many press releases sent to him. In his rage he formulated a sharp replica to all editors and senders of press releases. He wrote: “Press releases are nearly useless. (...) They typically start with a tremendous amount of top-spin, they contain pat-on-the-back phrases and meaningless quotes. Often, they will contain quotes from C-level executives praising their customer focus. They often contain praise from analysts, (who are almost always paid or have a customer relationship.) And so on (...). This madness has to end. It is wasted time and effort by hundreds of thousands of professionals” (Foremski 2006).
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35. 9. Globalization and Citizenship: The Chinese in Silicon Valley
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Bernard P. Wong
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Globalization ,Silicon valley ,Economy ,Political science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Citizenship ,media_common - Published
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36. Must a competitive city be a tolerant city?
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Peter Karl Kresl
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Economic growth ,Silicon valley ,Modernity ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Inclusion (education) ,media_common - Abstract
This necessity of inclusion is amplified by Kresl’s observation that in the US the most competitive urban areas are linked to tolerance – tolerance of individuals of various religions, sexual preferences, age, gender, races and national origin, as well as the homeless and the disabled. This goes beyond mere compatibility. The increased competitiveness of cities in the US South and West is significantly linked to movements into historically intolerant places of skilled younger workers from centers of technology such as Boston, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Silicon Valley and San Diego, as well as from university centers such as Chicago, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. This has been exacerbated by development of the I-4 Economy of the World Economic Forum. Modern transportation and communication have opened these hitherto intolerant cities to these inflows of modernity and competitiveness in a sustainable way.
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37. Education and Referrals: Parallel Mechanisms of White and Asian Hiring Advantage in a Silicon Valley High Technology Firm
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Koji Chavez
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Silicon valley ,White (horse) ,ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION ,Referral ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Context (language use) ,Possession (law) ,Racism ,Educational attainment ,Elite ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY ,Demographic economics ,Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Are White and Asian job applicants advantaged in access to professional jobs relative to Black and Latinx job applicants at the initial screening stage of the hiring process? And, are the mechanisms of advantage for White applicants different than the mechanisms for Asian applicants? In this chapter, the author proposes a theoretical framework of “parallel mechanisms” of White and Asian advantage during hiring screening – that White and Asian applicants are advantaged compared to Black and Latinx applicants, but that the mechanisms of advantage subtly differ. The author focuses specifically on mechanisms related to two important factors at the hiring interface: referrals and educational attainment. The author applies the concept of parallel mechanisms to a case study of software engineering hiring at a midsized high technology firm in Silicon Valley. The author finds that at this firm, White applicants are advantaged at initial screening relative to Black and Latinx applicants due to average racial differences in applicant characteristics – namely having a referral – as well as differences in treatment by recruiters. For Asian applicants, average racial differences in possession of elite educational credentials, as well as racial differences in recruiter treatment, explain the racial disparity in callbacks. The author discusses the implications of parallel mechanisms of advantage for racial inequality in a multiracial context, and for organizational policy meant to address racial disparities during organizational hiring processes.
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38. The Magus of Silicon Valley. Immortality, Apocalypse, and God Making in Ray Kurzweil’s Transhumanism
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Egil Asprem
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History of Religions ,Religionshistoria ,Silicon valley ,Philosophy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Immortality ,Ray Kurzweil ,singularity ,millennialism ,Transhumanism ,History of religions ,esotericism ,spiritualism ,Theology ,transhumanism ,media_common - Abstract
The Magus of Silicon Valley : Immortality, Apocalypse, and God Making in Ray Kurzweil’s Transhumanism
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39. Depois do pós-fordismo: as últimas décadas da razão material do trabalho
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Breilla Valentina Barbosa Zanon
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Market economy ,Silicon valley ,Restructuring ,Post-Fordism ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Economics ,Rationality ,Bureaucracy ,Fordism ,media_common - Abstract
Inúmeras são as formas pelas quais o mercado de trabalho buscou lidar com as transformações econômicas nos últimos 50 anos. Dentre essas transformações, a flexibilização marca as novas dinâmicas de produção e de organização dos trabalhadores. O presente artigo tem como objetivo refletir sobre as transformações decorrentes da reestruturação produtiva, observando como a partir desse cenário de estagnação da produtividade fordista – percebida como resultante da rigidez e das burocracias presentes na organização da produção, distribuição e nos mercados –, demandas não só dos consumidores, mas também dos trabalhadores, não podiam mais ser atendidas. O artigo tem como foco o surgimento de um novo perfil de trabalhador, demandado a partir das novas dinâmicas de flexibilização do mercado e de uma nova racionalidade a respeito do trabalho que, no início do século XXI, vai se refletir em novos modelos de organização e gestão do trabalho, como as startups e os coworkings.
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40. 'It’s an Ongoing Bromance': Counterculture and Cyberculture in Silicon Valley—An Interview with Fred Turner
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Alberto Lusoli and Fred Turner
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Silicon valley ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Art history ,06 humanities and the arts ,Art ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,Cyberculture ,Counterculture ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,0502 economics and business ,060301 applied ethics ,050203 business & management ,media_common - Abstract
Fred Turner is considered one of the most influential experts on, and critical observers of, cyberculture. He is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University in the Department of Communication. Through his work, he provided a thoughtful analysis of the politics and culture of Silicon Valley. In his books, he explored the connections between the collaborative and interdisciplinary research culture of the Second World War, the protest movements of the 1960s, and the managerial ethos permeating digital and new media industries. In this interview, we discuss about the consequences that the countercultural movements had on the organization of labor in modern tech giants, especially in relation to the substitution of hierarchies for flat and more entrepreneurial structures. We also talk about the consequences that a code of ethics might have in the democratization of technology and the responsibility that we have as citizens and academics.
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41. Life under lockdown: Notes on Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley
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Roberto J. González and John Marlovits
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060101 anthropology ,Silicon valley ,Shelter in place ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Inequality ,Poverty ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,0507 social and economic geography ,06 humanities and the arts ,Original Articles ,Gentrification ,050701 cultural studies ,Political science ,Anthropology ,Development economics ,Pandemic ,0601 history and archaeology ,Original Article ,China ,media_common - Abstract
This article is a preliminary exploration of the effects of Covid-19 in Silicon Valley, one of three pandemic ‘hotspots’ on America’s west coast. In particular, it describes how the crisis has deepened and magnified social and economic inequalities in a region where poverty, homelessness and gentrification are rife. Despite the fact that many technology firms are reaping massive profits in the wake of ‘shelter in place’ orders, many Silicon Valley workers have lost their jobs and are struggling to cope with the consequences of Covid-19. The article also analyzes the different meanings of ‘lockdown’ by comparing examples from China, Brazil, Taiwan and the United States. The authors conclude that anthropologists have a significant role to play in helping to understand how and why communicable diseases emerge, the underlying social and environmental conditions that fuel them and cross-cultural strategies for the effective mitigation of epidemics and pandemics.
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42. Synergy in the knowledge base of U.S. innovation systems at national, state, and regional levels: The contributions of high‐tech manufacturing and knowledge‐intensive services
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Loet Leydesdorff, Igone Porto-Gómez, Fred Phillips, Caroline S. Wagner, and Jordan A. Comins
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Information Systems and Management ,Silicon valley ,Computer Networks and Communications ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Sample (statistics) ,Library and Information Sciences ,050905 science studies ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,National state ,State (polity) ,Knowledge base ,National system ,Regional science ,National level ,Business ,0509 other social sciences ,050904 information & library sciences ,Telecommunications equipment ,Information Systems ,media_common - Abstract
Using information theory, we measure innovation systemness as synergy among size‐classes, ZIP Codes, and technological classes (NACE‐codes) for 8.5 million American companies. The synergy at the national level is decomposed at the level of states, Core‐Based Statistical Areas (CBSA), and Combined Statistical Areas (CSA). We zoom in to the state of California and in more detail to Silicon Valley. Our results do not support the assumption of a national system of innovations in the U.S.A. Innovation systems appear to operate at the level of the states; the CBSA are too small, so that systemness spills across their borders. Decomposition of the sample in terms of high‐tech manufacturing (HTM), medium‐high‐tech manufacturing (MHTM), knowledge‐intensive services (KIS), and high‐tech services (HTKIS) does not change this pattern, but refines it. The East Coast—New Jersey, Boston, and New York—and California are the major players, with Texas a third one in the case of HTKIS. Chicago and industrial centers in the Midwest also contribute synergy. Within California, Los Angeles contributes synergy in the sectors of manufacturing, the San Francisco area in KIS. KIS in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area—a CSA composed of seven CBSA—spill over to other regions and even globally.
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43. The Pilipino Association of Workers and Immigrants, Silicon Valley, CA
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Michael Tayag
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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Geography ,Silicon valley ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Immigration ,Socioeconomics ,media_common - Published
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44. Hey Google, what's a moonshot?
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Thomas Haigh
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Silicon valley ,General Computer Science ,biology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Apollo ,02 engineering and technology ,Art ,050905 science studies ,biology.organism_classification ,Archaeology ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,0509 other social sciences ,media_common - Abstract
Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.
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45. The wider impacts of high-technology employment: Evidence from U.S. cities
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Thomas Kemeny and Taner Osman
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Labour economics ,Silicon valley ,Urban agglomeration ,Inequality ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Census ,Urban planning ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,0502 economics and business ,Specialization (functional) ,Economics ,050207 economics ,Real wages ,Living Costs ,media_common - Abstract
Innovative, high-technology industries are commonly described as drivers of regional development. ‘Tech’ workers earn high wages, but they are also said to generate knock-on effects throughout the local economies that host them, spurring growth in jobs and wages in nontradable activities. At the same time, in iconic high-tech agglomerations like the San Francisco Bay Area, the home of Silicon Valley, the success of the tech industry creates tensions, in part as living costs rise beyond the reach of many non-tech workers. Across a large sample of U.S. cities, this paper explores these issues systematically. Combining annual data on wages, employment and prices from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Consumer Price Index, it estimates how growth in tradable tech employment affects the real, living-cost deflated wages of local workers in nontradable sectors. Results indicate that high-technology employment has significant, positive, but modest effects on the real wages of workers in nontradable sectors. These effects appear to be spread consistently across different kinds of nontradable activities. In terms of substantive wider impacts, tech appears benign, though fairly ineffectual.
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46. Innovation by design
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Nancy J. Hodges and Albert N. Link
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Economics and Econometrics ,Entrepreneurship ,Textile industry ,Knowledge management ,Silicon valley ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Creativity ,Clothing ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,0502 economics and business ,050207 economics ,business ,050203 business & management ,media_common - Abstract
In this paper, links between creativity, design, and innovation are explored through the literature specific to the textile and apparel industries. We discuss the ways that the apparel industry embodies entrepreneurial innovation through creativity and design that makes it an exemplar of the idea of “Main Street” entrepreneurship, albeit one that relies in part on “Silicon Valley” innovation via its relationship with the textile industry. We conclude with a discussion of the need for more research on the topic and offer recommendations for future empirical investigations. Further research specific to the apparel industry would augment the thin foundation of existing literature and shed light on how innovation occurs through creativity and design within a key global industry and “Main Street” endeavor.
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47. The Need for Localized Risk (Venture) Capital: Place-Based Impact Investing
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Joe Milam
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Economics and Econometrics ,Middle class ,Silicon valley ,020209 energy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Venture capital ,Economic benefits ,Market economy ,Capital (economics) ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Meritocracy ,Impact investing ,Profitability index ,Business ,Finance ,media_common - Abstract
There is a growing recognition that the concentration of risk or venture capital in so few communities presents not only a challenge for the start-ups emerging from the many university entrepreneurial programs, incubators, and accelerators, but also is having a negative impact on the overall economy. Simultaneously, advancements in technology have undoubtedly improved the efficiency and profitability of many, if not most, industries. However, this has come at the expense of blue-collar jobs—and subsequently, the middle class. Moreover, with the concentration of venture capital in Silicon Valley, Boston, and now New York City, the companies located in those cities receive the lion’s share of funding and enjoy the associated economic benefits of innovation and technological advancement—vibrant and expanding employment opportunities and wealth creation. This double-whammy of job losses across much of the country and concentrated wealth creation in few communities has come to the attention of researchers, forward-thinking community and family foundations, and wealthy individuals concerned with broadening the economic opportunities that innovation and technological advancement provide. The necessity to mobilize capital on a localized or regionalized basis has been labeled Place-Based Impact Investing. This article will review the research and conclusions that have fueled the need for Place-Based Impact Investing, identify the current thought leaders, and describe some of the early efforts at mobilizing “legacy capital” into communities to support the growing but underfunded innovative companies. We also will explore some of the new methods, vehicles, and overlooked tax laws that can accelerate the mobilization of capital on a more geographic and meritocratic manner.
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48. A spotlight on 'established', as opposed to 'newcomer', Americans
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Miri Song
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Cultural Studies ,education.field_of_study ,Silicon valley ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Immigration ,Population ,0506 political science ,Anthropology ,Political economy ,0502 economics and business ,Assimilation (phonology) ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,050207 economics ,education ,media_common - Abstract
By elaborating upon the idea of “relational assimilation”, Tomas Jimenez alters the dominant lens through which social scientists, and especially sociologists, have understood the concept of assimilation and the effects of immigration. In this highly readable and thoughtful book, we are asked to conceive of this kind of assimilation as one which involves “the give-and-take of adjustment”, not just a one-way route by which “newcomers” must adapt to settings populated by “established” members of the population. According to the author, ongoing forms of immigration and its resulting diversity actually change the regional self-understandings of those who are already living in those settings.
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49. Suburbia reimagined: Asian immigration and the form and function of faith-based institutions in Silicon Valley
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Anisha Gade and Willow Lung-Amam
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Silicon valley ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Immigration ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,Urban Studies ,Faith ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Form and function ,Political science ,Political economy ,050703 geography ,media_common - Abstract
Rapid immigration has caused dramatic social and spatial reconfigurations of American suburbs. This study examines how Asian immigrants reshaped the form and function of one Silicon Valley suburb t...
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50. Editorial: Las internets de e-Salud
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Edwin Andrés Sepúlveda Cardona
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Silicon valley ,Health professionals ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,E-salud ,Internet ,Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones ,lcsh:BF1-990 ,Library science ,Phase (combat) ,lcsh:Therapeutics. Psychotherapy ,lcsh:RC475-489 ,lcsh:Psychology ,State (polity) ,Political science ,The Internet ,business ,media_common - Abstract
Internet es un gran laboratorio de exploración, un LAB para todos los ensayos posibles, porque, como dice Friedman (2012), aún está en una fase beta. Estamos experimentando: los ciudadanos conectados, los nuevos ingenieros y los nuevos profesionales de la salud. En los laboratorios de Internet se están fraguando todo tipo de iniciativas. La efervescencia de una civilización hiperconectada -si acaso- nos permite inventariar los cocteles digitales que se desarrollan a diario, ya sea desde un garaje (como se forjó Sillicon Valley) o en una clínica especializada con los recursos de un Estado o de alguna organización supranacional.
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