{"product_id":"technoprecarious-precarity-lab-9781912685981","title":"Technoprecarious","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTechnoprecarious \u003c\/i\u003eadvances a new analytic for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate geographical sites and cultural practices in the digital age. Digital technologies--whether apps like Uber, built on flexible labor, or platforms like Airbnb that shift accountability to users--have assisted in consolidating the wealth and influence of a small number of players. These platforms have also exacerbated increasingly insecure conditions of work and life for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities; women; indigenous people; migrants; and peoples in the global south. At the same time, precarity has become increasingly generalized, expanding to include even the creative class and digital producers themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collaboratively authored multigraph analyzes the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity. The authors use the term \u003ci\u003eprecarity\u003c\/i\u003e to characterize those populations disproportionately affected by the forms of inequality and insecurity that digital technologies have generated despite the new affordances and possibilities they offer. The book maps a broad range of digital precarity--from the placement of Palestinian Internet cables to the manufacture of electronics by Navajo women and from the production and deployment of drones on the U.S.-Mexico border to the technocultural productions of Chinese makers. This project contributes to, and helps bridge, ongoing debates on precarity and digital networks in the fields of critical computing, postcolonial studies, visual culture, and information sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Precarity Lab\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1912685981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912685981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goldsmiths Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.30d","brand":"Precarity Lab","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50663696630015,"sku":"9781912685981","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/technoprecarious-precarity-lab-9781912685981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}