“Generous” and “Stingy” Advice Sharing Among Peer Freelancers in Professional and Creative Project Work Considering Competitive Advantage

To make ends meet as a freelancer, people have to build a serious and credible skillset (through formal education, credentialing, deep practice) and offer sufficient public information to draw the attention of potential clients. Depending on their particular expertise, they have to have social contacts in the field, and they have to be active on various platforms to bid for work. Freelancers have a variety of social media platforms that they may socialize on for mutual support and advice sharing. Sometimes, to build their credibility, freelancers will create and share peer-to-peer teaching and learning resources. These individuals and teams have to share relevant information without giving away any competitive advantage, given the sparsity of paid jobs and projects. To consider generosity and stinginess of social advice sharing, this work explores some peer-shared teaching and learning resources on the Social Web surrounding freelance work, including a set of 126 slideshows on a popular social slide-sharing site and 16 video transcripts from a popular video-sharing site.

PELATIHAN FOTOGRAFI, VIDEOGRAFI DAN MENULIS BERITA DI MEDIA SOSIAL UNTUK PENYANDANG DISABILITAS DI ANNIKA LINDEN CENTRE

A B S T R A C T English translation. Today's growing digital world also affects the variety of types of work for disabilities. One of the prospective job opportunities for disabled people is freelance work. Freelance work for the disabled is available among others in the world of photography, design and writing such as photographers, news contributors / journalists, graphic design, copywriters, social media admins. These positions certainly require special skills so that disabilities can develop a career in the creative industry sector. If pursued, freelance work can be one of the career alternatives for disability. Many disabled colleagues have an interest in photography but are constrained by physical limitations and the availability of needed devices. Through a series of community service through training in the framework of disability day, want to introduce the world of photography and at the same time utilize the functionality of mobile phones so that it can be maximized by people with disabilities. Photography skills such as editing and other related abilities such as video editing will be useful for disabilities to lead a career into the creative world of photography. The world of photography and journalism are two things that are interrelated, writing becomes a skill mastered by people with disabilities as a writer. The need for journalistic training for disabilities becomes important as a starting point for disability recognizing interests in the field and further building a career in that field. A B S T R A K Dunia digital yang semakin berkembang saat ini turut mempengaruhi variasi jenis pekerjaan bagi disabilitas. Salah satu peluang pekerjaan yang prospektif bagi disabilitas adalah pekerjaan freelance. Pekerjaan freelance bagi disabilitas tersedia antara lain di dunia fotografi, desain dan penulisan contohnya profesi seperti fotografer, kontributor berita/jurnalis, desain grafis, copywriter, admin media sosial. Posisi-posisi tersebut tentunya mensyaratkan keterampilan khusus agar disabilitas dapat mengembangkan karir di sektor industri kreatif tersebut. Apabila ditekuni, pekerjaan freelance dapat menjadi salah satu alternatif karir untuk disabilitas.Banyak rekan disabilitas memiliki minat di dunia fotografi namun terkendala keterbatasan fisik maupun ketersediaan device yang dibutuhkan. Melalui serangkaian pengabdian kepada masyarakat melalui pelatihan dalam rangka hari disabilitas, ingin memperkenalkan dunia fotografi dan sekaligus memanfaatkan fungsionalitas ponsel agar dapat dimaksimalkan oleh penyandang disabilitas. Kemampuan fotografi seperti editing dan kemampuan terkait lainnya seperti video editing akan berguna bagi disabilitas untuk menuju karir ke dunia kreatif fotografi. Dunia fotografi dan jurnalistik adalah dua hal yang saling terkait, penulisan menjadi keahlian yang dikuasai oleh penyandang disabilitas sebagai penulis. Kebutuhan akan adanya pelatihan jurnalistik bagi disabilitas menjadi penting sebagai titik awal disabilitas mengenali minat di bidang tersebut dan untuk selanjutnya dapat membangun karir di bidang tersebut.

COVID-19 Pandemic and the Rising Gig Economy: An Emerging Perspective

The Gig economy refers to short term jobs, contract or freelance work and flexi timing jobs as opposed to traditional full-time labor, which has witnessed a rapid growth in the last decade across the globe. Digital platforms have largely developed a free market system where independent workers connect with the buyers of the services. The Platform or Gig economy has grown at a much faster pace than ever before from the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. Since the COVID-19 lockdown, the labor market has been affected in a drastic way and a trend towards short-term and temporary jobs has become commonplace. The Economic Survey, 2020-21 highlights the growing importance of Gig economy in India amid the pandemic-induced lockdown which has led to an immense growth in the online retail business. The employers began layoffs and instead engaged freelancers or flexi staff to bring down their overhead costs. Many studies have been conducted now on assessing the impact of the ongoing pandemic on the economy and stock markets, however, very few studies focus on the influence the pandemic had on the Gig economy. The present study attempts to fill this gap by evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on the Gig economy by assessing whether the increase in new COVID-19 cases lead to an increase in the number of gig workers in the Indian economy, or in other words, exerts a significant impact on the Indian gig economy or not.

Public parts, resocialized autonomous communal life

Commoning embodies the product of social contracts and behaviors between groups of individuals. In the case of social housing and the establishment of physical domains for life, commoning is an intersection of these contracts and the restrictions and policies that prohibit and allow them to occur within municipalities. Via a platform-based project entitled Public Parts (2020), this article will also present positions on the reification of the common through a set of design methodologies and implementations of automation. This platform seeks to subvert typical platform models to decrease ownership, increase access, and produce a new form of communal autonomous life amongst individuals that constitute the rapidly expanding freelance, work from home, and gig economies. Furthermore, this text investigates the consequences of merging domestic space with artificial intelligence by implementing machine learning to reconfigure spaces and program. The problems that arise from the deployment of machine learning algorithms involve issues of collection, usage, and ownership of data. Through the physical design of space, and a central AI which manages the platform and the automated management of space, the core objective of Public Parts is to reify the common through architecture and collectively owned data.

Back to the future of journalist work? Entrepreneurial subjectivity and freelance journalism in Sweden

This article adds to our knowledge of precarious journalist work in advanced welfare states. By drawing on the literature on neoliberal governmentality, it explores how entrepreneurial subjects are constituted, and the particular role of freelance work in this process. The article is based on interviews with 52 freelance journalists in Sweden. The study illustrates how the impermanent and marketized forms of freelance work enforces an entrepreneurial subjectivity onto the individuals who engage in it – a subject position which in turn seems to be necessary when it comes to making it in a fierce freelance market. In this way, the neoliberal discourse of entrepreneurship has a performative effect in that it helps to produce the kind of entrepreneurial subjects needed in order for a competitive precarious labour market to function. At the end of the article, I discuss how the particular role of the Swedish setting, that is, an advanced welfare state with strong worker protection, paradoxically seems to amplify the precarious work done by some professionals as it only protects those on the ‘inside’ of traditional employment, while leaving increasing groups of outsiders, such as freelance journalists, exposed to precarization.

Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market

The Online Labour Index (OLI) was launched in 2016 to measure the global utilisation of online freelance work at scale. Five years after its creation, the OLI has become a point of reference for scholars and policy experts investigating the online gig economy. As the market for online freelancing work matures, a high volume of data and new analytical tools allow us to revisit half a decade of online freelance monitoring and extend the index's scope to more dimensions of the global online freelancing market. While (still) measuring the utilisation of online labour across countries and occupations by tracking the number of projects and tasks posted on major English-language platforms, the new Online Labour Index 2020 (OLI 2020) also tracks Spanish- and Russian-language platforms, reveals changes over time in the geography of labour supply and estimates female participation in the online gig economy. The rising popularity of software and tech work and the concentration of freelancers on the Indian subcontinent are examples of the insights that the OLI 2020 provides. The OLI 2020 delivers a more detailed picture of the world of online freelancing via an interactive online visualisation updated daily. It provides easy access to downloadable open data for policymakers, labour market researchers, and the general public ( www.onlinelabourobservatory.org ).

Freelancing and Consulting

In following a public sector career, it is sometimes possible to secure a permanent and prestigious position at a high-profile leaving the academy. This process, however, is frequently not immediate and often requires a significant amount of practical experience, which, in turn, is often attained through freelance work. Although, in recent years, freelancing has come to symbolize a liminal state of unemployment, it can also be approached as a period of strategic preparation. Also, it should be noted that for some ethnomusicologists, establishing themselves as successful freelancers or consultants leads to flexible and rewarding career options. In this chapter, I present some basic information on how to get started in the world of public sector ethnomusicology as a freelancer, addressing some important questions such as: how to develop a consultant presence; how to determine honoraria and fees; how to overcome the lack of institutional support and self-promote among cultural organizations, educational or community groups, and/or for-profit entities; how to approach already-established scholars and cultural networks; and how to engage institutions in supporting freelance-driven projects. I do so by sharing my experience as someone who has spent her entire career in the public sector—much of it as a freelancer—and by giving practical advice and a general orientation to those interested in exploring public sector ethnomusicology as a long-term professional commitment.

Preparing for Jobs Outside the Academy

At the 2019 meeting of the AAR in San Diego, Dr. Brad Stoddard led a workshop that encouraged graduate students to look outside academia for potential jobs. As the academic job market tightens, many qualified people are left scrambling for careers in theirfield of study. As Stoddard suggests in his workshop, the answer may lie in pursuing work outside the field of academia. Following Kelly Baker’s example, Stoddard showcases how much work is available through a portfolio career, offering advice on reinventing oneself academically, obtaining freelance work, and finding employment in non-profits that likely will fulfill one’s intellectual hopes and dreams.

Entrepreneurship vs. Freelancing: What’s the Difference?

The development of Internet technology (IT) at the end of the 20th century and its integration into the business sector has led to the emergence of digital labour platforms that provoke a reorganization of work arrangements by matching the demand and supply of goods and services, known as the “gig economy”. The “gig economy” stands for economic activities or work arrangements related to the performance of very short-term tasks facilitated by digital platforms and can include freelance work, temporary work, work on-demand and contract work. Our paper focuses on the new, growing workforce of freelancers. Freelancers belong to the self-employed category of entrepreneurial activity who do not employ workers, who pay their own taxes, work on projects, work for several clients, and work remotely, usually from home. According to various sources and findings, they are also referred to as entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, digital micro-entrepreneurs, hybrids of employees and entrepreneurs, enablers of entrepreneurship, potential entrepreneurs, etc. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between freelancers and entrepreneurs. The paper will use a literature-review approach to highlight the similarities and main differences between freelancers and entrepreneurs and to find an answer to the question whether freelancers can be considered entrepreneurs or not. In addition, the paper provides insights into freelance work and highlights the benefits and challenges that freelancers face in the labour market.