Gina Neff – Wiki, Bio, Age, Husband, Net Worth

In the past five years her research has been financially supported by UK taxpayers, the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the US National Science Foundation, the University of Washington, the Leverhulme Trust, and Microsoft.

As part of her science communication and policy outreach, she has served in an advisory capacity with paid talks, paid training or service on an advisory board or working group with the following organizations: DigiMed, LSE Configuring Light Project, Data & Society Research Institute, EU VIRT-EU Project, IAC, ING Bank, NSF Understanding Public Uses of Data and Dashboards Project, Northern Illinois University, Minderoo Foundation, Said School of Business Executive Education, Structure Tone, The Women’s Forum for Economy & Society, University of Calgary Gairdner Lecture, Zinc VC.

Self-Tracking, explores what happens when people turn their everyday experiences into data, examining the habits and usage of self-tracking.  Neff and her co-author Dawn Nafus explore how people record, analyse and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others, using data in a way that empowers and educates. It was awarded Co-Winner, American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) 2013 Book Award.

Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries, focuses on the effects of Silicon Alley in the 1990s.  The book explores why employees pioneering internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes and human capital in start-up ventures.   Neff links this behaviour to a broader shift in society with economic risk shifted from collective responsibility to individual responsibility.  She argues that understanding ‘venture labour’ is important for encouraging innovation and creating sustainable work environments that support workers. It won the Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Communication and Information Technologies.