This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work. With a focus on the new formation of space and place, it critically discusses the idea that places in the context of work are increasingly losing their importance, and becoming more arbitrary with new technical possibilities.
Theoretical considerations that deal conceptually with the understanding of space and work are taken into account, as well as empirical results from different professional and work fields across various regions of our globalised world.
The book is applicable to researchers and students of sociology of work, media and communications, organization studies, workplace studies, labour process studies, economics, human geography, anthropology and learning sciences.
Chapter 1, 4 and 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Chapter
1. Introduction to Topologies of Digital Work (Mascha
Will-Zocholl and Caroline Roth-Ebner).- Section I: Geographies Of Digital
Work.
Chapter 2.The Geography of the Digital Freelance Economy in Russia and
Beyond (Andrey Shevchuk, Denis Strebkov and Alexey Tyulyupo).
Chapter
3.
Supporting the Global Digital Games Industry: Outsourcing Games Production in
Poland and Estonia (Anna Ozimek).
Chapter
4. Automating Labour and the
Spatial Politics of Data Centre Technologies (Brett Neilson and Ned
Rossiter).- Section II: Places Of Work.
Chapter
5. Doing Homework Again:
Places of Work from a Historical Perspective (Christian Oggolder).
Chapter
6. The Spatial Production of Wanghong: Political Economy, Labour Mobility and
the Unlikely Creativity (Jian Lin).
Chapter
7. Reconfiguring Workplaces in
Urban and Rural Areas: A Case Study of Shibuya and Shirahama, Japan (Keita
Matsushita).- Section III: Virtual Working Spaces.
Chapter
8. ICT Enforced
Boundary Work: Availability as a Sociomaterial Practice (Calle Rosengren, Ann
Bergman and Kristina Palm).
Chapter
9. Virtual Spaces, Intermediate Places:
Doing Identity in ICT-Enabled Work (Dominik Klaus and Jörg Flecker).
Chapter
10. The Duality of the Physical and Virtual Worlds of Work (Ingrid Nappi and
Gisele de Campos Ribeiro).
Chapter
11. Synopsis: How Space and Place Matter
in the Context of Digital Work (Caroline Roth-Ebner and Mascha Will-Zocholl).
Mascha Will-Zocholl is Professor at Hessian University of Police and Administration, Department of Public Administration, Germany.
Caroline Roth-Ebner is Associate Professor at the University of Klagenfurt, Department of Media and Communications, Austria.
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