Precarity within the Digital Age: Media Change and Social Insecurity (Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien)

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 ofthe media change can be integratively thematized and discussed.The aim of this book project is to provide cross-disciplinary perspectives on the phenomena of social inequality, insecurity and precarity which accompany media change in a dawning digital age. Within the increasingly growing field of precarity research, the empirical and theoretical analysis of the relation ‘digitalisation/precarity’ remains a challenge. The book project provides a contribution to this open research field. 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 insequirity how to face the `new digital worldþ. 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. The Editors Birte Heidkamp is in charge of the coordination of the e-Learning Centre at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. Dr. David Kergel is responsible for the project "Habitussensitive Teaching and Learning" at the HAWK Hildesheim Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction and Structure of the Book....Pages 3-8 Media Change—Precarity Within and Precarity Through the Internet ....Pages 9-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Precarity and Surrogacy: The Invisible Umbilical Cord in the Digital Age....Pages 31-68 Dealing with Uncertainty: The Use of Mobile Phone Among Construction Workers....Pages 69-79 Spectacular Precarity the Condition of Knowledge Workers in the Context of Informational Capitalism....Pages 81-98 Precarity and Social Media from the Entrepreneurial Self to the Precariatised Mind....Pages 99-113 The Desk Environment Some Fragments on the Reorganization of Working Places....Pages 115-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Digital Media in Resisting Social Inequality the Indian Experience....Pages 123-133 Towards the Aestheticisation of the Resistances in the Digital Age? A Critical Approach....Pages 135-149 Digital Globalization and the Ends of Education....Pages 151-161 Embodying Digital Ageing: Ageing with Digital Health Technologies and the Significance of Inequalities....Pages 163-178 Precarious Healthcare Professionalism in the Age of Social Media....Pages 179-195 "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 insequirity how to face the ̀new digital world́. 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"--Back cover 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.