The Costs of Connection
The Costs of Connection Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its…
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The Costs of Connection
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. 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. 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 authors argue that this development foreshadows the 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.
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