Ubiquitous Connectivity and the Virtual Workplace

Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5190-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Mobile technology is now firmly situated in the operations, both formal and informal, of modern labour and workforce management. This book focuses on how the interests of corporations and governments to embrace a "new economy" have served to drive the development and uptake of mobile/ubiquitous media. Touching on topics including unpaid labour and big data, surveillance, AI, the global smartphone market, telecommuting, automation, and more, Manzerolle offers readers an astute and timely investigation into digital labour, mobile media, and political economy which may hint at the future of work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manzerolle, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Work Without Borders: The Age of Ubiquitous Media

Chapter 2: On Myth, Media, and Power: Towards a Political Economy of ‘Always On’ Media

Chapter 3: Wireless Data Standards, Devices, and Markets: Historical and Technical Foundations of Ubiquitous Connectivity

Chapter 4: Commercializing Wireless Data in North America and the Birth of the Global Smartphone Market

Chapter 5: From "New Economy" to "Creative Economy": Ubiquitous Connectivity as Policy Framework

Chapter 6: From Telework to Ubiquitous Connectivity: The Rise of Mobile Workforces and Virtual Organizations

Chapter 7: The ‘Appification’ of Work: Surveillance, Automation, Precarity

Chapter 8: Tethered to the Information Assembly Line: Unpaid Labour and the Rise of Big Data

Chapter 9: Beyond the Device: Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Ambient Technologies

Chapter 10: Conclusion: On the Future of Work

Über Autor(innen)

Vincent Manzerolle is an Assistant Professor of Critical Communication Theory in the department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Windsor where he teaches courses on the political economy of information, mobile media, surveillance technologies, search engines and data mining, and media convergence.