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In my cyberculture course, I reach the issue of the Internet jobs in the future virtual environment of work.
The main categories are:
Mole People: Hackers, sex freaks, revolutionaries, and other weirdos who have taken to the electrosphere to preach their causes.
Social Workers: Tireless servants who endure the endless stream of Net-based nonsense. Example: the „hosts” of online communities, who often work for free accounts.
Cybercops: They patrol chat rooms and bulletin boards, looking for lurid material and for offensive people: pedophiles, stalkers, „mole people.”
Cab Drivers: Itinerant new-media freelancers – designers, HTML coders, copywriters, beta-testers – whose unscrupulous managers often skip out before paying their „fares.”
Fry Cooks: Found sweating over work that’s behind schedule, they bear the brunt of managerial tirades.
Gold Diggers and Gigolos: The schmoozers, cheerleaders, and opportunistic philanderers who hold well-paying jobs, even though no one is quite sure what they do.
Priest and Madmen: Influential journalists, analysts, and pundits who lend a touch of intellectual depth to a shallow industry.
In other classifications, there are also „offline people”, those who live outside the connected society.
I use this classification in my mind to think about Romania’s future place in the European Union. It’s obvious that the EU wants us because they will find here cheap labour and they can manipulate this people, already tranquilized by the entertainment media with „things” like Beeecali and MoniIri.
Do you think we’ll be the „social workers” of the European Union, starting 2007?