Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy

by Greg Goldberg

Book Overview

The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing economy, and the exploitation of leisure We have been told that digital technology is now threatening the workplace as we know it, that advances in computing and robotics will soon make human labor obsolete, that the sharing economy, exemplified by Uber and Airbnb, will degrade the few jobs that remain, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147982190X
• ISBN13: 9781479821907
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"