Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9780197631003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str.

Assistant Profe Julia (Assistant Professor of Communication

Opis

A moving and accessible look at the intimate consequences of contemporary capitalism, Left to Our Own Devices explores the ways that workers use digital technologies to navigate insecurity. Through 100 interviews with high and low-wage independent workers across the US, Julia Ticona explores the surprisingly similar "digital hustles" that all workers use to not only find work and maintain a sense of dignity and identity, but also strengthen inequalitiesbetween workers at either end of polarized labor markets..

Recenzje

This is a rare book about media technology that puts people first. Through its stirring prose we see how real people manage data and connectivity in their lives. We get a better sense of the consequences and opportunities of widespread dependence on phones and apps. Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media

O autorze

Julia Ticona is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research investigates the ways that digital communication technologies shape the meaning and dignity of precarious work. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Data & Society Research Institute, and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. In 2017, she collaborated on an amicus brief on behalf of Data & Society for Carpenter vs. U.S. before the US Supreme Court. Her work appears in The New York Times, The Nation, Wired, Slate, Dissent, Jezebel, Fast Company, and NPR's All Things Considered.