互联网领域中的知识工人

知识工人是互联网劳动研究中最主要的学术概念。本文梳理了知识工人的概念来源、理论传统和主要研究成果。并结合互联网产业的发展现实,指出需解决的两大挑战:一个是知识工人概念本身内涵模糊外延庞大,不利于厘清互联网劳动者的特点,另一个是在相关研究中对互联网技术及文化变量的忽视,不利于对互联网劳动特点的解释。

Knowledge Worker in the Internet Industry

Knowledge worker is the most important academic concept in the study of Internet labor. This paper reviews the origin, traditional theories and main research findings on the concept. Then relating the development situation of Internet industry, it discusses two challenges in the Internet labor study ： firstly, the concept of knowledge worker remains vague, which is inimical to the clarification of the characteristics of Internet workers ; secondly, the internet technology and culture are overlooked in related researches, which is not conducive to the explanation of the features of Internet labor.