The San Francisco tech scene blends startup workers, freelancers, and social media gurus.

Evidence

Around this industry has grown up a lively community of social media enthusiasts who socialize in person and online. This “tech scene” is comprised of people working at venture-backed technology startups, employees at big companies like Google, freelancers, social media “gurus,” engineers, academics, fanboys, and designers, many of whom move to San Francisco to participate in the community. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 27

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what the ‘tech scene’ is as a social entity — the population the whole study examines.
• XREF: The composition of this scene (gurus, fanboys, freelancers) parallels later literature on creative-city and precariat labor in creator economies. — connects to: Twitter’s early user base was a small San Francisco tech clique — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 207

Broader Connections

• Twitter’s early user base was a small San Francisco tech clique #exemplifies (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 207