Digital Nomads Beyond the Buzzword: Defining Digital Nomadic Work and Use of Digital Technologies

Digital nomadicity has gained popularity in recent years as a fashionable lifestyle and as a way of challenging traditional work contexts, but there has been very little incisive empirical research on the lifestyle’s characteristics, its implications for the future of work, or on the technology, whi...

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Published inTransforming Digital Worlds Vol. 10766; pp. 207 - 217
Main Authors Nash, Caleece, Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein, Sutherland, Will, Phillips, Gabriela
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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Digital nomads
Digital work
Gig work
Nomadic work
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Summary:Digital nomadicity has gained popularity in recent years as a fashionable lifestyle and as a way of challenging traditional work contexts, but there has been very little incisive empirical research on the lifestyle’s characteristics, its implications for the future of work, or on the technology, which supports it. This paper describes the four key elements that constitute the work of digital nomads: (1) digital work, (2) gig work, (3) nomadic work, and (4) adventure and global travel. We present digital nomads as a community of workers situated at the confluence of these four elements and define how each of these are enabled by the use of digital technologies. This research serves as a foundation for information studies concerned with the dynamic and changing relationships between future of work, new population of workers (digital natives) and emerging digital platforms.
ISBN:3319781049
9783319781044
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_25