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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337715503321

Autore

Leung Wing-Fai

Titolo

Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality : An East Asian Perspective / / by Wing-Fai Leung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783319975238

3319975234

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Collana

Dynamics of Virtual Work, , 2947-9304

Disciplina

338.951249

Soggetti

Industrial sociology

Sex

Mass media

Digital media

Entrepreneurship

New business enterprises

Sociology of Work

Gender Studies

Media Sociology

Digital and New Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Family Metaphor, the Geek and the Entrepreneurial Ideal -- 3. Girls in Tech: Progress and Barriers in a Gendered Culture -- 4. Luxury Chairs and Pizzas: The Production of Social Spaces and Class -- 5. Cool, Creative but not so Equal -- 6. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy. Addressing the intersections between issues of gender, age, ethnicity and class, the author interviews startup founders, including many husband and wife teams, in order to understand the working and private lives of digital entrepreneurs in and from Taiwan who utilise



Internet and mobile technologies, against a backdrop of the country's political, social and economic history. It investigates contemporary debates about entrepreneurship as they are experienced by new generations of start-uppers who challenge existing social and cultural norms by becoming creative workers and embracing the precarity that exists in the volatile digital economy.