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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Couldry, Nick (Autor), Mejias, Ulises A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Colección:Culture and Economic Life
Temas:
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Capitalism.
Electronic data processing > Social aspects.
Electronic data processing.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Information technology.
Internet > Social aspects.
Internet.
Social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
autonomy.
capitalism.
colonialism.
connection.
data.
decoloniality.
extraction.
internet.
postcolonialism.
society.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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