The costs of connection : how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism / Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias.
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TextSeries: Culture and economic lifePublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxiii, 323 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781503609747 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Information technology -- Social aspects | Internet -- Social aspects | Electronic data processing -- Social aspects | Capitalism -- Social aspects | Media Studies | Media StudiesDDC classification: 303.4'833 Summary: Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to 'connect' through digital means. But this convenience is not free - it is purchased with masses of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to make a profit. This text uncovers this process, this 'data colonialism,' and its designs for controlling our lives - our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but the book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture and translate our lives into data, and then extract information that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to 'connect' through digital means. But this convenience is not free - it is purchased with masses of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to make a profit. This text uncovers this process, this 'data colonialism,' and its designs for controlling our lives - our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but the book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture and translate our lives into data, and then extract information that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us.
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