Vincent Manzerolle

Ubiquitous Connectivity and the Virtual Workplace

Everything, Everywhere, All the Time

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2027
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780815351900
• ISBN-10: 0815351909
• Artikelnr.: 60007689

Autorenporträt

Vincent Manzerolle is an Assistant Professor of Critical Communication Theory in the department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Windsor where he teaches courses on the political economy of information, mobile media, surveillance technologies, search engines and data mining, and media convergence.

Inhaltsangabe

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