Precarity within the Digital Age: Media Change and Social Insecurity

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and Structure of the Book....Pages 3-8
Media Change—Precarity Within and Precarity Through the Internet ....Pages 9-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Precarity and Surrogacy: The Invisible Umbilical Cord in the Digital Age....Pages 31-68
Dealing with Uncertainty: The Use of Mobile Phone Among Construction Workers....Pages 69-79
Spectacular Precarity the Condition of Knowledge Workers in the Context of Informational Capitalism....Pages 81-98
Precarity and Social Media from the Entrepreneurial Self to the Precariatised Mind....Pages 99-113
The Desk Environment Some Fragments on the Reorganization of Working Places....Pages 115-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Digital Media in Resisting Social Inequality the Indian Experience....Pages 123-133
Towards the Aestheticisation of the Resistances in the Digital Age? A Critical Approach....Pages 135-149
Digital Globalization and the Ends of Education....Pages 151-161
Embodying Digital Ageing: Ageing with Digital Health Technologies and the Significance of Inequalities....Pages 163-178
Precarious Healthcare Professionalism in the Age of Social Media....Pages 179-195