The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff · 15 Jan 2019 · 918pp · 257,605 words
that the company’s fusion of capitalism and the digital might set a new course toward a third modernity. The promise of an advocacy-oriented digital capitalism during the first decade of our century galvanized second-modernity populations around the world. New companies such as Google and Facebook appeared to bring the
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potential of its own creations. The dramatic success of Apple’s iPod and iTunes instilled internet users with a sense of optimism toward the new digital capitalism, but Apple never did seize the reins on developing the consistent, comprehensive social and institutional processes that would have elevated the iPod’s promise to
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of a new synthesis for a third modernity in which a genuine inversion and its social compact are institutionalized as principles of a new rational digital capitalism aligned with a society of individuals and supported by democratic institutions. The fact that Schumpeter reckoned the time line for such institutionalization in decades or
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German automobile industry in the twenty-first century, where strong labor institutions formally share decision making authority.13 Hyperscale firms have become emblematic of modern digital capitalism, and as capitalist inventions they present significant social and economic challenges, including their impact on employment and wages, industry concentration, and monopoly.14 In 2017
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bearings are the resources we require to begin the shared work of synthetic declarations that claim the digital future as a human place, demand that digital capitalism operate as an inclusive force bound to the people it must serve, and defend the division of learning in society as a source of genuine
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a strikingly original voice, simultaneously bold and wise, eloquent and passionate, learned and accessible. Read this book to understand the inner workings of today’s digital capitalism, its threats to twenty-first-century society, and the reforms we must make for a better tomorrow.” —Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Carey School of
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen · 1 Mar 2018 · 308pp · 85,880 words
of the twenty-eight members of the European Union. According to the Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens, Margrethe Vestager is the woman who is saving digital capitalism from the digital capitalists. The problem with free market capitalism, digital or otherwise, Stephens says, is its natural and perhaps even inevitable tendency toward winner
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
of disruptors, each replacing the previous economic incumbent, now has itself been blown up by an even more disruptive theory of early-twenty-first-century digital capitalism. Christensen’s ideas have themselves been reinvented by the bestselling business writers Larry Downes and Paul F. Nunes, who’ve replaced the “Innovator’s Dilemma
The Smartphone Society
by Nicole Aschoff
to Raise Pay for Thousands of Contract Workers, Including Content Moderators.” Bloomberg, May 13, 2019. Wajcman, Judy. Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Wang, Maya. “China’s Chilling ‘Social Credit’ Blacklist.” Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2017. Waters, Richard, Rochelle Toplensky, and
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by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words
Intelligence (1995) Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation (1997) Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World (1997) Coauthor, Ann Cavoukian Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs (2000) Coauthors, David Ticoll and Alex Lowy The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business (2003
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff · 22 Jan 2019 · 196pp · 54,339 words
exploitative financial institutions but it doesn’t help rehumanize the economy, or reestablish the trust, cohesion, and ethos of mutual aid that was undermined by digital capitalism. It simply substitutes for trust in a different way: using the energy costs of blockchain mining as a security measure against counterfeiting or other false
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
as human rights reports (in some countries, more easily); smartphones have become the preeminent surveillance tool for corporations and governments alike. While many once foresaw digital capitalism as the harbinger of an era of widespread prosperity, legacy industries such as newspapers have crumbled, and income inequality is now higher than ever—particularly
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readily what we ‘like’ gets translated into who we are.” Zuckerberg is only one exponent of what has become a folkway in the age of digital capitalism. Ever connected, perhaps fearing disconnection itself more than the fear of missing out, we live the informational appetite. We have internalized and institutionalized it by
Who Owns the Future?
by Jaron Lanier · 6 May 2013 · 510pp · 120,048 words
create an organic path to middle-class wealth that would be better than the ad hoc mountain of levees that sustained middle classes in pre-digital capitalism. CHAPTER 21 Some First Principles Provenance The foundational idea of humanistic computing is that provenance is valuable. Information is people in disguise, and people ought
Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age (Washington, DC: Free Press, 2009), 12, www.freepress.net/files/changing_media.pdf. 46. Dan Schiller, Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), 128. 47. The celebratory and largely fatuous coverage of the Internet continues in what remains
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, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 40–41. For a superior discussion of the entire debate over commercializing the Internet in the 1990s, see Dan Schiller, Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999). 103. Turow, Daily You, 49. 104. Ibid., 57–63. 105. See Lauar J. Gurak, Cyberliteracy
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