| 书目名称 | Precarity within the Digital Age | | 副标题 | Media Change and Soc | | 编辑 | Birte Heidkamp,David Kergel | | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/755/754417/754417.mp4 | | 概述 | Developments in the media and the social consequences.Precarity in and through the internet.International and interdisciplinary.Includes supplementary material: | | 丛书名称 | Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity. .Change arising from digital developments takes place on micro-, meso- and meta-levels and have always social implications. Concepts such as Social Media, eHealth and Digital Capitalism, Informational Capitalism and Social Exclusion, Digital Globalization and Motility frame the social dynamics and implications of changes in digital media. These changes evoke a double precarity or stable unstability: Social practices throughout the diverse societal fields are questioned through the media change which leads to a digital age. The ongoing media change requires new social practices – what evokes precarity as an ongoing insecurity how to face the `new digital world´..As a socio-economic phenomenon and effect of neoliberal policy precarity changes life planning and self-narrations of the affected individuals. Precarity and neoliberal subjection-processes manifest in the digital age and are performatively re-produced by the way new media are used. . | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Innovation; Digitalization; E-Participation; Media-Change; Unequaliy; Social Insecurity; Work; Technical Un | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17678-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-658-17677-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-658-17678-5Series ISSN 2509-3266 Series E-ISSN 2509-3274 | | issn_series | 2509-3266 | | copyright | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2017 |
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Introduction and Structure of the Book |
David Kergel,Birte Heidkamp |
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Abstract
The chapter provides an overview about the thematic structure of the book. For this purpose, the heuristic approach of a double precarity is introduced. On one hand, precarity can be understood as an unstable employment relationship and analyzed as an effect of neoliberal roll-back processes. Precarity and other societal power structures manifest in the digital age and are re-produced by the way, digital media are used. On the other hand the media change effects a stable instability or precarity. Due to the media change social practices throughout the diverse societal fields are questioned: new social spaces emerge which require new social practices and effect a stable instabiilty of the media use. This approach of a double precarity enables a systematically meta-perspective on the societal transformation processes which are connected with digitalisation. In line with this heuristic approach the different societal aspects and dimensions of the media change can be integratively thematized and discussed.
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Media Change—Precarity , and Precarity , the Internet |
David Kergel,Birte Heidkamp |
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The article outlines a perspective on the societal dimension of the ongoing media change. One thesis is that the media change effects a double precarity—whereby precarity is defined as stable instability: The media change effects a stable instability or precarity. Social practices throughout the diverse societal fields are questioned through the media change which leads to a digital age. As a socio-economic phenomenon, precarity influences life planning and self-narrations of the affected individuals. Precarity and neoliberal subjection processes unfold in the digital age and are performatively re-produced by the way new media are used. Using semiotic analyses and a discourse-analytical orientated approach the article unfolds the thesis of a double precarity—. through . within .
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Precarity and Surrogacy: The Invisible Umbilical Cord in the Digital Age |
Bula Bhadra |
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The existing literature around precarity and the precariat is almost Northern-centric which, invariably ignores the globalization of reproductive inequalities and the digital divide between women in terms of race, social class and developed/developing nations ability/disability etc. The female body’s generative capacity is now a new ‘arena of investment’ in the convivial ambiance of globalization and ICTs and also an integral component of social insecurity, inequality and precarity in this neoliberal digital age. Surrogates women make up a disproportionate part of the social category whose experience in the world of work is marked by “precarity” in terms of informal labour, wage squeeze, insecurity, uncertainty, pernicious risk and inequality. These surrogates belong to the most underprivileged among a globally growing workforce of casual labour which has come to be called the “precariat” and the processes of reproduction have been deregulated, privatized and made available for investment and speculative development of digital capitalism. This paper, thus, articulates the interrelation between surrogacy and precarity through Indian experience. In the heyday of digitized world of neo liberalism there now exist an invisible umbilical cord in the form of another variety of ‘division of labour and concomitant inequality’ between precariat women whosells their reproductive capacities and the affluent women who pay for them.
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Dealing with Uncertainty: The Use of Mobile Phone Among Construction Workers |
Abdallah Zouhairi,Jamal Khalil |
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In this article, we discuss the use of mobile phones among construction workers in Casablanca (Morocco) as a strategy for efficient mobility to deal with the precarious nature of their work. One of the most important characteristics of these workers is their geographical mobility. These workers have to cope with the fast completion of construction projects and the need to find other construction sites in order to avoid periods without work. The role of the mobile phone is crucial in order for them to stay informed about the latest job opportunities on construction sites. We explore mobile phones are used and the benefits of its use among these workers. The results show that mobile phones allow workers to stay up-to-date with job opportunities and information about the best pay available. Mobile phones make their mobility more efficient thanks to pooled information about the location of work sites. The concept of mobility is used to link spatial mobility competencies enabled by the mobile phone with the social mobility of these workers suffering job precarity.
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Spectacular Precarity the Condition of Knowledge Workers in the Context of Informational Capitalism |
Marco Briziarelli,Emiliana Armano |
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The goal of this paper is to revisit the media theory-informed framework originally advanced by Debord’s . in order to acknowledge the changes implied by the shift to a post-fordist information and knowledge driven capitalism. We use the Debordian theory as a lens through which we critically explore both the subjective and objective conditions of precarious labor. More specifically, we will make reference to the concrete setting of informational/knowledge labor in Turin by reporting excerpts of interviews with professionals and their precarious conditions. That will provide an empirical engagement with the subjectivities inhabiting what we define as the Spectacle of precarization, a condition of labor mediated by current information and communication technologies that describes precarity as being characterized by the tensions between autonomy and exploitation, informality and stable structures of value creation. We claim that the notion of Spectacle contributes to explain how informational capitalism produces precarity by creating both a stable system of representation for collectively shared meanings and practices of knowledge working, at the same time, producing a scenario that systematically places its actors in a dependable condition of impermanence.
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Precarity and Social Media from the Entrepreneurial Self to the Precariatised Mind |
Birte Heidkamp,David Kergel |
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Within the digital age, self-narrations of individuals unfold within social media, especially within Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook and Google +. These online-based self-narrations actualize topoi of the entrepreneurial self (cf. Bröckling in The entrepreneurial self. Fabricating a new type of subject. Sage, Thousand Oaks, .). The entrepreneurial self can be understood as an ideal image of neoliberal self-government. The online-based self-narrations within SNS use topoi of the entrepreneurial self and effect thus the experience of precarity or—with respect to Standing (The precariat: the new dangerous class. Bloomsbury, London, .) a precarized mind. In the first subsection, the relation ‘neoliberal policy/precarity’ is discussed. The interpellations and subjection effects of neoliberal policy and the related experience of precarity will be analyzed. The second subsection uses a discourse-analytical orientated approach. Via the interpretation of different empirical data and study results it will be discussed, how narration topoi of the entrepreneurial self structure the self-narrations within SNS.
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The Desk Environment Some Fragments on the Reorganization of Working Places |
Robert F. Riesinger |
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Using the desktop as a metonymy, the article thematizes how increasing flexibilization and new working conditions change social interaction processes as well as self-relations. These societal transformation processes effect a new concept of the desktop as working space: The working place was defined by configuration of positions and implied a certain stability. The working space in turn is defined by flexible interactions and intersection of mobile elements. Such a working space has also a digital dimension: “The desk environment is digitized without limits and borders because of its network structure”. The transformation of the desktop from a working place to a flexible and mobile working space corresponds to the flexibility and mobility which are features of the precarity discourse.
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Digital Media in Resisting Social Inequality the Indian Experience |
Bikram Keshari Mishra |
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It is often argued, hierarchy, holism, continuity and transcendence constitute the hallmark of Indian society (Singh in Modernization of Indian tradition. Rawat Publication, Jaipur, .). As Dumont (Homo hierarchicus: the caste system and its implications. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, .) puts it; Indian society and Western society represent an opposition between homo hierarchicus versus homo aequalis. In Indian context, hierarchy, in social parlance, depicts nothing but the repressed side of inequality. As we are told, the entire social system in India is founded on the social inequality. And this inequality is in-built and deep-rooted in the entire social fabric which manifests itself in some form or the other and which is perpetuated in various forms of social exclusions, segregations, traditions and taboos. However, one’s lived-in experience in the contemporary digital world alters one’s notions of inequality topsy-turvily. For instance, Ghurye’s (Caste and race in India, Popular Prakashan, Delhi, .) ideas of civil disability, religious disability, restrictions on food and commensal intercourse, endogamy, inequality and hierarchy and Dumont’s ideas of inequality based on pollution appear redundant owing to the alterations in people’s approach to notions of caste and religion in modern times. With little ambiguity one may state, digital media has to a large extent succeeded in demolishing such exclusions and social disabilities and it has emerged as a powerful weapon to resist social inequalities and bridge social gaps between social groups. The present paper represents a modest endeavour to examine the role of social media in resisting social inequalities in Indian context.
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Towards the , of the Resistances in the Digital Age? A Critical Approach |
Arkaitz Letamendia |
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Are we facing a process of . of the resistances in the digital age? To answer this question, I propose a concept that characterises modes of resistance in specific places and historical times: the Social Form of the Protest (SFP). The SFP is defined by protest tactics, such as demonstrations and barricades, and structural axes of confrontation, such as capital-labour and centre-periphery. Previous resistances to the inequalities generated by modern industrial capitalism were expressed through an equally modern SFP, born as a reaction to its power structures. At present, digital innovation appears to be modifying the parameters of this dialectical relationship. On the one hand, digital social networks increase communicative potential of the contemporary SFP; but on the other they dilute its deep transformation capacity. If confined to the communicative sphere, digital social media filters may turn resistances into media products. In this process the medium and .—through Information and communications technology—are imposed on the content and .—deep transformation objectives. This results in the emergence of the . of resistance and limits its ability to resist growing social inequalities.
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Digital Globalization and the Ends of Education |
Peter Trifonas |
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Education occupies the nexus of an ever-changing field of technology and the market forces of globalization. This chapter analyzes how its effects are manifest in relation to practices grounding the socio-economical and politico-ideological conditions of teaching and learning. Platforms for e-learning and performative standards of .cy have influenced curricular objectives on the premise of turning out students prepared to compete for success in the “wired” international e-marketplace. The demands of corporate agendas advocating the necessary technological competence of a new careerism have transformed educational goals. We have an academic responsibility to expose the relation of knowledge to power and the ideological underpinnings of claims to reason in a computerized information society. We must recognize the ethico-political dimension of knowledge that a technological rendering of education diminishes.
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Embodying Digital Ageing: Ageing with Digital Health Technologies and the Significance of Inequalities |
Monika Urban |
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In recent years, eHealth has become increasingly established in Europe. However, it remains unclear how these digital health practices will influence concepts of health as a human right and a central element of well-being. In the debates around demographic change, digital health technologies’ potential contribution to successful ageing is emphasized, while their consequences for ageing as a social process are rarely considered. The following analysis approaches this topic by looking at shifts in the (health) practices of the elderly through the usage of digital health technologies. Three digital health practices will be analyzed using a sociocultural gerontechnological approach: wearables in the context of fitness, monitoring technologies for the management of long-term chronic conditions, and ambient assistive technologies in the context of home-based care.
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Precarious Healthcare Professionalism in the Age of Social Media |
Patricia Neville |
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Historically, healthcare professions have occupied a unique position in society, bound by the terms of the ‘social contract’. However, the ubiquity of social media, the blurring of the offline/online distinction and the ready online availability of personal information challenges the practice of professionalism. A growing body of research reveals that the online activities of current student health professionals, such as their social media posts, has been found to be unprofessional by breaching patient confidentiality or posting inappropriate content. These studies mainly conceptualise these lapses in professionalism as evidence of latent deficiencies in the current generation of healthcare students that can be rectified through the regulatory actions of their professional bodies. This book chapter uses precarity to present an alternative viewpoint on the impact that social media is having on the practice of healthcare professionalism. It posits that the theory of precarity can offer further explanation for why and how social media disrupts healthcare professionalism in the 21st century.
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