The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
by Kate Crawford · 5 Apr 2021 · 355pp · 89,587 words
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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
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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
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias · 19 Aug 2019 · 458pp · 116,832 words
’ industrial ecology system,”32 a strategy that serves China’s desire to acquire both greater economic independence from the West and greater influence within global digital capitalism.33 In India, the Aadhaar unique ID system introduced in 2009 is creating huge new opportunities for data exploitation by both government and corporations, although
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.130 Our Argument within the Wider Debate about Data and Capitalism Why is it that so far we have talked simply of capitalism and not digital capitalism, informational capitalism, communicative capitalism, platform capitalism, or surveillance capitalism, to name some rival terms?131 The reason is straightforward. No convincing argument has yet been
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” include both labor itself, with its means of reproduction, and the expanding conditions, or factors, of production. 71. Scott, Seeing Like a State. 72. Schiller, Digital Capitalism, 8, 13–24; and Panitch and Gindin, Global Capitalism, 148, 189, 191, 288. 73. Habermas, Communicative Action, vol. 2, 196, 305, an argument developed in
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“data.” 79. Kelly, “New Rules.” On the transfer of ownership of the internet’s infrastructure, see McChesney, Digital Disconnect, chap. 4, 104–9. 80. Schiller, Digital Capitalism, 13–24. 81. Plantin et al., “Infrastructure Studies.” 82. Schiller, Digital Depression; for a good popular history, see Keen, The Internet. For a brilliant anticipation
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.” 118. For naturalization, see Marx, Capital, vol. I, 168. 119. For more orthodox recent approaches to Marx and information, see Fuchs and Mosco, Age of Digital Capitalism; Fuchs, Digital Labour; and Timcke, Capital, State, Empire. 120. Marx, Capital, vol. I, 951. 121. One respected analyst of people’s use of fitness trackers
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environmentalists’ recent commentary on Marx’s discussion of the “metabolic rift” (Marx, Capital, vol. I, 637; for development, see Bellamy, “Metabolic Rift”). 131. Respectively, Schiller, Digital Capitalism; Castells, Network Society; Cohen, Truth and Power; Dean, Neoliberal Fantasies; Srnicek, Platform Capitalism; and Zuboff, “Big Other.” 132. Cohen, Truth and Power, Chapter 1. Occasionally
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; data and emerging social order of, 19–27; data colonialism, defined, 3–4; data colonialism, features, 6–18; and data relations, 27–32; defined, 33; “digital capitalism” versus, 32–33; as expansionary, xvi–xvii, 222n21; and historical colonialism components, 4–5; and neoliberalism, 33–34; privacy and contradictions of, 181–84; social
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of knowledge for, 207–11; vision for, 196 DeLillo, Don, 162 De Sousa Santos, Boaventura, 201, 263n46 Desrosières, Alain, 120 Digital Agenda (European Union), 89 “digital capitalism” versus capitalism, 32–33 “digital disruption,” 22 digital natives, 108–11 Discovery, 135 discrimination: exploitation of race and ethnicity, 107–8, 244n89; and social knowledge
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words
the regulatory models they have adopted at home and promoted abroad. These three leading regulatory models could be thought of as representing three “varieties of digital capitalism”—drawing on different theories about the relationship between markets, the state, and individual and collective rights.27 As described throughout this book, the US has
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base, 262–63 Digital Advertising Tax (Maryland), 239–40 digital authoritarianism, 135 beyond China, 308–13 China’s, 77–78, 290–323 criticism of, 99 digital capitalism, 6 Digital Divide projects, 268 digital economy, 21–23, 388–93. see also e-commerce global, 385–88 local, 300 digital empires, 6–20, 23
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
TAPSCOTT Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business (with David Ticoll) Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs (with David Ticoll and Alex Lowy) Creating Value in the Network Economy Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
by Tamara Kneese · 14 Aug 2023 · 284pp · 75,744 words
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Culture works: the political economy of culture
by Richard Maxwell · 15 Jan 2001 · 268pp · 112,708 words
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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
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CHAPTER TWENTY: BACK TO THE FUTURE handful of well-known favorites: Tim Schneider, “How Artist Simon Denny Is Turning Board Games into Hilarious Critiques of Digital Capitalism,” Artnet, April 2, 2018, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/banksy-guest-stars-sort-of-on-the-latest-episode-of-hbos-silicon-valley-1258157. Thiel
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