The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism - Rilegato

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Couldry, Nick; Mejias, Ulises A.

 
9781503603660: The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
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ISBN 10: 1503603660 ISBN 13: 9781503603660
Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2019

Sinossi

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 vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection 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 this 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. The authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a new social order emerging globally—and it must be challenged. Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated, they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and emancipate our desire for connection.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Ulises A. Mejias is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, College at Oswego.

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Editore
Stanford Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2019
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1503603660
ISBN 13 
9781503603660
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
323
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  150360974X ISBN 13:  9781503609747
Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2019
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