The costs of connection : how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism

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 un...

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Main Authors: Couldry, Nick, Mejias, Ulises A
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford Stanford University Press 2019
Edition:1
Series:Culture and economic life
Subjects:
autonomy
Capitalism
Capitalism > Social aspects
colonialism
connection
data
decoloniality
Electronic data processing
Electronic data processing > Social aspects
extraction
Information technology
Information technology > Social aspects
Internet
Internet > Social aspects
postcolonialism
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
society
colonialism
autonomy
society
data
capitalism
connection
decoloniality
extraction
postcolonialism
internet
ISBN:9781503609747, 150360974X, 1503609758, 9781503609754, 9781503603660, 1503603660
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Colonized by Data -- PART I. Extracting -- 1 The Capitalization of Life without Limit -- 2 The Cloud Empire -- Interlude: On Colonialism and the Decolonial Turn -- 3 The Coloniality of Data Relations -- PART II. Ordering -- 4 The Hollowing Out of the Social -- 5 Data and the Threat to Human Autonomy -- PART III. Reconnecting -- 6 Decolonizing Data -- Postscript: Another Path Is Possible -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
  • Acknowledgments --
  • Contents --
  • 5. Data and the Threat to Human Autonomy --
  • Index
  • Part II. Ordering --
  • Part I. Extracting --
  • Interlude. On Colonialism and the Decolonial Turn --
  • Postscript. Another Path Is Possible --
  • Part III. Reconnecting --
  • Frontmatter --
  • 3. The Coloniality of Data Relations --
  • Notes --
  • 6. Decolonizing Data --
  • 1. The Capitalization of Life without Limit --
  • Bibliography --
  • 4. The Hollowing Out of the Social --
  • Preface. Colonized by Data --
  • 2. The Cloud Empire --