Precarity within the Digital Age

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction and Structure of the Book
David Kergel, Birte Heidkamp

2. Media Change—Precarity Within and Precarity Through the Internet

David Kergel, Birte Heidkamp

Part II. Precarity Within Digital Media

3. Precarity and Surrogacy: The Invisible Umbilical Cord in the Digital Age
Bula Bhadra

4. Dealing with Uncertainty: The Use of Mobile Phone Among Construction Workers
Abdallah Zouhairi, Jamal Khalil

5. Spectacular Precarity the Condition of Knowledge Workers in the Context of Informational Capitalism
Marco Briziarelli, Emiliana Armano

6. Precarity and Social Media from the Entrepreneurial Self to the Precariatised Mind
Birte Heidkamp, David Kergel

7. The Desk Environment Some Fragments on the Reorganization of Working Places
Robert F. Riesinger

Part III. Precarity Through Digital Media

8. Digital Media in Resisting Social Inequality the Indian Experience
Bikram Keshari Mishra

9. Towards the Aestheticisation of the Resistances in the Digital Age? A Critical Approach
Arkaitz Letamendia

10. Digital Globalization and the Ends of Education
Peter Trifonas

11. Embodying Digital Ageing: Ageing with Digital Health Technologies and the Significance of Inequalities
Monika Urban

12. Precarious Healthcare Professionalism in the Age of Social Media
Patricia Neville

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Media Sociology, Sociology of Work, Sociological Theory, Medical Sociology