Academics online: reflections on gendered precarity and digital (self) surveillance

This chapter traces the shift in conceptualisations of academic time to understand what affect time and temporality has on academic women’s identities and performativities. The traditional linear career trajectory of an academic is being displaced by far more fractured academic life course. This chapter focuses on how new technologies of time operate discursively to both assist and impair academic labour, interrogating the gendered relationship between precarity and academics’ engagement with social media and academic professional networking sites. Entanglement with these websites is not simply symptomatic of an increasingly globalised and intensified academy, but is, in fact, driving the intensification of academic work, gendered job precarity, and (self) surveillance