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Auteur(s) : Thompson, Beverly Yuen
Titre(s) : Digital nomads living on the margins [Texte imprimé] : remote-working laptop entrepreneurs in the gig economy / by Beverly Yuen Thompson
Publication : Bingley : Emerald publishing, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (142 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Emerald studies in alternativity and marginalization
Lien à la collection : Emerald studies in alternativity and marginalization
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 123-137. Index
In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological
advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to
travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform
workers. Digging beneath the superficial newspaper articles that highlight beach-bound,
bikinied workers, adorned with laptops, this book asks, what are the social implications
of adopting the subcultural lifestyle known as 'Digital Nomadism'? This book explores
the inherent social problems with this lifestyle. Examining how Digital Nomadism provides
an individualistic fix for an otherwise downwardly-mobile millennial generation, Thompson
demonstrates how this generation increasingly postpone markers of adulthood-purchasing
a house, getting married, or having children-because of their financial insecurities.
Thompson highlights that while being a Digital Nomad can provide a high quality of
life while living on the beaches of Thailand, such avenues obscures their inabilities
to afford a comfortable lifestyle in their home countries
Sujet(s) : Flexibilité du travail -- Société
Travail -- Effets des innovations technologiques
Personnel -- Effets des innovations technologiques
Économie numérique
Indice(s) Dewey : 331.256 (23e éd.) = Milieu de travail
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781800715455. - ISBN 1800715455. - ISBN 9781800715479. - ISBN 1800715471. - ISBN 1800715463. - ISBN 9781800715462
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46827270h
Notice n° :
FRBNF46827270
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Table des matières : Chapter 1. Digital nomads, liquid modernity, and the COVID-19 pandemic ; chapter 2. Western millennials : demographics and socio-economic status ; chapter 3. Digital nomads : outcasts of the global bazaar economy ; chapter 4. Bright sided : positive psychology and its adaptation to digital nomadism ; chapter 5. Laptops, sunscreen, surfboards, and selfies : travel, tourism, and leisure practices of the digital nomads ; chapter 6. Seeking same : digital nomads seek community ; chapter 7. Marginalized identities, social justice, and volun-tourism ; chapter 8. Digital nomads as canaries in the coalmine : disruption and the future of work and leisure
