Digital Precarity

Platform Power and Posthuman Vulnerability
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-17817-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Digital Studies

Digital Precarity: Platform Power and Posthuman Vulnerability examines how precarity is reconfigured in the digital age through platform capitalism, algorithmic governance, and data extraction. It reveales digital precarity as a defining condition of contemporary mediated life.

Moving beyond conventional understandings of precarity as economic insecurity or unstable work, the author analyses how platform capitalism, algorithmic governance, data extraction and the attention economy produce new forms of vulnerability, dispossession and affective modulation. The book argues that digital precarity is not simply a by-product of technological change but a defining condition of mediated life, in which human subjectivity, labour, sociality and desire are continually captured, quantified and commodified. Through engagement with theories of precarity, postcolonial critique, racial capitalism, digital labour and posthuman capitalism, it illuminates the ways digital systems reproduce older hierarchies while generating novel forms of insecurity and dependency.

This book is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in digital culture, labour studies, media studies, sociology, political economy, and critical theory. It is particularly suited to researchers examining platform capitalism, algorithmic governance, digital labour, and the social implications of technological change, as well as those interested in postcolonial critique, racial capitalism, and critical approaches to understanding contemporary forms of inequality and vulnerability in digital societies.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ibrahim, Yasmin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Digital Precarity: Platform Power and Posthuman Vulnerability

Chapter One - Precarity and Its Reformulation in the Digital Age

Chapter Two - Precarity and Platformisation

Chapter Three - Digital Precarity and Cruel Optimism

Chapter Four - Digital Precarity and Ontological Insecurity

Chapter Five - Precarious Labour in the Peripheries and the Global South

Chapter Six - Data Empires, Digital Capitalism and the Attention Economy

Chapter Seven - The Sex Machine: Digital Racial Capitalism and the Global South

Über Autor(innen)

Yasmin Ibrahim is Professor in Digital Economy and Culture at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her research explores the socio-cultural dimensions of digital technologies and its implications for humanity. She teaches on the digital economy and has published numerous books and articles on the topic. She also writes extensively on race, migration, border controls, Islam and terrorism. Her recent books include Posthuman Capitalism: Dancing with Data in the Digital Economy (2022) and Migrants, Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and 'Unmaking' the Human (2023), also published by Routledge. She is author of Digital Racial: Algorithmic Violence and Digital Platforms (2023) and the forthcoming From Virtuality to Augmented Reality: Between Sociality and Violence.