I wonder if you consider persons who work behind firewalls programming and who never bring work home and there is no remote or Internet communication involved? I work in such a job mostly. Communication is still key in management but it is local communication with coworkers not outside the building. Yes, ICT use is high because we do computationally intensive work to produce data products for analysts of a variety of nationally relevant research questions. Or is this even an appropriate point in an Internet research forum? -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Christian Fuchs Sent: October-31-12 7:10 PM To: Announcements@iamcr.org; aoir list Cc: Huws, Ursula Subject: [Air-L] EU COST Network "Dynamics of Virtual Work" Dear colleagues, A new EU COST research network on "Virtual Work" has formed: http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1202 Detailed desription: http://w3.cost.eu/fileadmin/domain_files/ISCH/Action_IS1202/mou/IS1202-e.pdf It focuses on the critical study of working conditions that relate to production and productive consumption in the context of ICTs, the "digital labour" debate, the political economy of communication labour, the spatial and global division of communication labour, the global value chain of ICT production, the gender division of communication labour, communication labour and class, the sociology of knowledge work, (paid, unpaid, precarious) work in the creative and cultural industries and related topics. The network has already participants from quite some European countries. There are however a few countries that are eligible to participate, but from which we do not-yet have management committee members. These countries are: Bosnia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine. If you live in any of these countries and are interested in the topic and in becoming a management committee member, then please contact the Action's Chair Prof. Ursula Huws, University of Hertfordshire, UK, u.huws@herts.ac.uk and express/explain your interest in the network. Best wishes, Christian Fuchs (Vice Chair, EU COST Action "Dynamics of Virtual Work") _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/