English Summary/英文概要： 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在日益新自由主義的零工經濟中，隨著技術的進步呈指數級增長，遠程線上工作的能力使得一些西方千禧世代前往世界各地工作和娛樂，同時以數位平台工作者的身份謀生。 本書深入探討了那些強調海灘上、穿著比基尼、戴著筆記本電腦的勞工的膚淺報紙文章，提出了一種問題：採用被稱為「數位游牧主義」的亞文化生活方式會產生什麼社會影響？

本書探討了這種生活方式固有的社會問題。 湯普森研究了數位游牧主義如何為原本生活水準下降的千禧世代提供了個人主義解決方案，並展示了這一代人如何由於經濟上的不安全感而越來越多地推遲成年的標誌——買房、結婚或生孩子。 湯普森強調，雖然作為數位游牧民可以在泰國海灘上享受高品質的生活，但這些途徑正好掩蓋了他們無法在自己的國家舒適生活的事實。(Zoe)

Beverly Yuen Thompson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Siena College, Albany, New York, USA. She is the author of Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body (New York University Press, 2015). She has published articles and book chapters on gender and subcultures in journals such as Sexualities, International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Asian Journal of Criminology, Contemporary Justice Review, Journal of Bisexuality, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and Qualitative Inquiry.