1st Edition
Digital Precarity Platform Power and Posthuman Vulnerability
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
Biography
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.
