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Antisocial Media - Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy (Hardcover)
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Antisocial Media - Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy (Hardcover)
Series: Postmillennial Pop
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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 that the
boundaries between work and play are collapsing as Facebook and
Instagram infiltrate our free time. In this timely critique, Greg
Goldberg examines the fear that work is being eviscerated by
digital technology. He argues that it is not actually the
degradation or disappearance of work that is so troubling, but
rather the underlying notion that society itself is under attack,
and more specifically the bonds of responsibility on which social
relations depend. Rather than rushing to the defense of the social,
however, Goldberg instead imagines the appeal of refusing the hard
work of being a responsible and productive member of society.
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