Zuboff Surveillance Capitalism

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a 2018 non-fiction book by Professor Shoshana Zuboff which looks at the development of digital companies like Google and Amazon, and suggests that their business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation that she calls 'surveillance capitalism'.^[1][2]

Premise[edit]

Zuboff states that Surveillance Capitalism 'unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data [which] are declared as a proprietary behavioural surplus, fed into advanced manufacturing processes known as ‘machine intelligence’, and fabricated into prediction products that anticipate what you will do now, soon, and later.' She states that these new capitalist products 'are traded in a new kind of marketplace that I call behavioural futures markets.'^[3]

Define “surveillance capitalism.” SHOSHANA ZUBOFF: Surveillance capitalism departs in many ways from the history of market capitalism, but in a fundamental way it is continuous with that. THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power By Shoshana Zuboff 691 pp. Canadian politicians don’t attract much notice this.

Reception[edit]

The New Yorker listed The Age of Surveillance Capitalism as one of its top non-fiction books of 2019.^[4] Barack Obama also listed it as one of his favourite books of 2019, which journalism researcher Avi Asher-Schapiro noted as an interesting choice, given that the book heavily criticises the 'revolving door of personnel who migrated between Google & the Obama admin”.^[5]

Sam DiBella, writing for the LSE Blog, criticised the book's approach which could 'inspire paralysis rather than praxis when it comes to forging collective action to counter systematic corporate surveillance.'^[6]Dungeon hunter 4 cheats.

The Financial Times called the book a 'masterwork of original thinking and research'.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^Bridle, James (2 February 2019). 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-01-17 – via www.theguardian.com.
2. ^Naughton, John (20 January 2019). ''The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism'. The Observer. ISSN0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-01-17 – via www.theguardian.com.
3. ^Naughton, John (2019-01-20). ''The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism'. The Observer. ISSN0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
4. ^Yorker, The New (2019-12-18). 'Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019'. ISSN0028-792X. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
5. ^Binder, Matt. 'Obama praises book that slams his White House for its Google relationship'. Mashable. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
6. ^November 10th; Reviews, 2019 Book; Democracy; Comments, culture 0 (2019-11-10). 'Book Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff'. USAPP. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
7. ^Graphics, FT Interactive. 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff'. FT Business book of the year award. Retrieved 2020-01-16.

Contents.Background Economic pressures of capitalism are driving the intensification of connection and monitoring online with spaces of social life becoming open to saturation by corporate actors, directed at the making of profit and/or the regulation of action. Relevantly, Turow writes that 'centrality of is a direct reality at the very heart of the '.: 17 has become focused on expanding the proportion of social life that is open to and data processing.

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