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e.V. Verein zur Förderung von Medienkulturen in Berlin
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Programm
Podiums
discussion on working conditions in multimedia agencies with:
Moderation
Video
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mikro.lounge
#6: Net Work
<http://www.mikro-berlin.org/Events/19980902E.html> WMF, Johannisstr. 20, Berlin-Mitte
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They're called "knowledge workers", "digital artisans", "symbol analysts" or the "digital class". All these terms refer to a new milieu for labor which has developed in the last four years in multimedia and Internet agencies. What all these jobs have in common is not only the work with computers and the Internet, but also a very specific work culture: young employees, long hours, an abundance of freelance or "steadily employed freelance" workers, a high turnover of employees, below-average pay, but also "blitz careers". The sixth mikro.lounge was critically addressed at the working conditions in multimedia agencies. This mikro.lounge is the only one for which there is no video or audio recording. As always, when you do something in front of an audience, you know less than anyone else what actually happened. So there is no protocol or record of this lounge. The tone for the evening
was set by a video by Berlin artists Ingo Vetter and Annette Weisser entitled
"Was zählt, ist nicht, die Gegensätze Vetter/Weisser see the development
in the relatively new multimedia industry as paradigmatic for a restructuring
of the entire working world towards new forms of "immaterial work" (T.
Negri) [T. B.] |