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The Costs of Connection - How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism (Paperback)
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The Costs of Connection - How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Economic Life
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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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