Full Description
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.
Contents
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
