"Salute the strivers": China's Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork.
Scholarly inquiry into labor issues in the digital industry has primarily centered on workers, with less attention devoted to employers, or entrepreneurs. Turning the scrutiny toward tech entrepreneurs, this article reports the results from a critical discourse analysis of how China's Internet giant...
| Publicado en: | Media, Culture & Society Vol. 46; no. 8; pp. 1559 - 1580 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Nov2024
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