Don’t Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation Economy Audiobook (Free)

Presents a timely evaluation of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of teenagers who cobble together the assets they need to pursue the lives and professions they want.

Adults are coming of age at a time when function is temporary, underpaid, incommensurate using their education, or downright unsatisfying. Despite these problems, press scholar S. Craig Watkins argues that this instant of precarity is usually rife with possibilities for innovation, which adults are leading the charge in about Don’t Knock the Hustle: Adolescent Creatives, Technology Ingenuity, and the Producing of a fresh Innovation Overall economy turning that into an inventive and amazingly sustainable future. Because of this, society is expanding its knowledge of who we think of as innovators and what qualifies as invention, while wealth is normally dispersing beyond traditional corridors of powerful tech companies, business capitalism, and well-endowed colleges.

Sketching on over a decade of interviews and data, Watkins shows the radical ways in which this community of ambitious young creatives can be transforming businesses from the exterior in. Diverse perspectives that are often disregarded or silenced by major corporations are garnering general public attention as women and folks of color are redefining sectors across the globe-all off their computer screens.

We meet up with people like Prince Harvey, a New York-based hip-hop musician who recorded his album entirely on an Apple showroom laptop computer; screenwriter, maker, and acting professional Issa Rae, who first utilized YouTube and Kickstarter to develop the net series that became her strike HBO present Insecure; the Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit firm created by item design college student Veronika Scott in Detroit; and start-up businesses like Qeyno Group in San Francisco and Juegos Rancheros in Austin that help make tech more available to people of color.

Forward-thinking and powerful, Don’t Knock the Hustle displays the variety and complexity of a generation on the rise.

UNIQUE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING MILLENNIALS that looks beyond stereotypes about their interactions with tech and labor, based on two years of MacArthur Grant-funded analysis.

DIVERSE AUDIENCE Charm that may reach millennials, teachers, people seeking to hire millennials, and scholars of technology, media, and labor.