Capitalism And The Information Age
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Author |
: Robert Waterman McChesney |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
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: 1998-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105020171778 |
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: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capitalism and the Information Age by : Robert Waterman McChesney
Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies. Not a day goes by that we don't see a news clip, hear a radio report, or read an article heralding the miraculous new technologies of the information age. The communication revolution associated with these technologies is often heralded as the key to a new age of "globalization." How is all of this reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.
Author |
: Daniel Cohen |
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: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2004-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262532638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262532631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Modern Times by : Daniel Cohen
How information technology has replaced the work culture of paternalism and standardization with one of isolation and insecurity.
Author |
: Shoshana Zuboff |
Publisher |
: PublicAffairs |
Total Pages |
: 658 |
Release |
: 2019-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610395700 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610395700 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by : Shoshana Zuboff
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.
Author |
: Christian Fuchs |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2007-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135898823 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135898820 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Internet and Society by : Christian Fuchs
By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, this book demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political and cultural systems of contemporary society have been transformed by new information and communication technologies.
Author |
: E. Fisher |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2010-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230106062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230106064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age by : E. Fisher
This book explores the new terrain of network capitalism through the transformations of the discourse on technology. Rather than viewing such discourse as either a true or false reflection of reality, Fisher evaluates the ideological role that technology discourse plays in the legitimation of a new form of capitalism. Based on an extensive empirical analysis, the book argues that contemporary technology discourse at one and the same time promises more personal empowerment through network technology and legitimates a more privatized, flexible, and precarious economic constellations. Such discourse signals a new tradeoff in the political culture of capitalism, from a legitimation discourse which emphasizes the capacity of technology and technique to bring about social emancipation (through equality, stability, and security) to a legitimation discourse which focuses on the capacity of technology to bring about individual emancipation (through individual empowerment, authenticity, creativity, and cooperation). Contrary to the prevailing assumption that sees network technology as liberating from the rigidity and pitfalls of a stifling, Fordist capitalism, the book offers a theoretical framework which sees contemporary technology discourse as an ideology that legitimates the economic, social, and political arrangements of the new capitalism.
Author |
: Christian Fuchs |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2021-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000473247 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000473244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Capitalism by : Christian Fuchs
This third volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series illuminates what it means to live in an age of digital capitalism, analysing its various aspects, and engaging with a variety of critical thinkers whose theories and approaches enable a critical understanding of digital capitalism for media and communication. Each chapter focuses on a particular dimension of digital capitalism or a critical theorist whose work helps us to illuminate how digital capitalism works. Subjects covered include: digital positivism; administrative big data analytics; the role and relations of patriarchy, slavery, and racism in the context of digital labour; digital alienation; the role of social media in the capitalist crisis; the relationship between imperialism and digital labour; alternatives such as trade unions and class struggles in the digital age; platform co-operatives; digital commons; and public service Internet platforms. It also considers specific examples, including the digital labour of Foxconn and Pegatron workers, software engineers at Google, and online freelancers, as well as considering the political economy of targeted-advertising-based Internet platforms such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Instagram. Digital Capitalism illuminates how a digital capitalist society’s economy, politics, and culture work and interact, making it essential reading for both students and researchers in media, culture, and communication studies, as well as related disciplines.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 561 |
Release |
: 2015-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004291393 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004291393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism by :
More than 130 years after Karl Marx’s death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitalism keeps being haunted by period crises. The most recent capitalist crisis has brought back attention to Marx’s works. This volume presents 16 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism, help us to understand the Internet and social media in 21st century digital capitalism. Marx is back! This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies.
Author |
: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2018-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465093694 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465093698 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data by : Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schörger, bestselling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge, who writes for The Economist, show, data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior. Big finance and big companies will be replaced by small groups and individual actors who make markets instead of making things: think Uber instead of Ford, or Airbnb instead of Hyatt. This is the dawn of the era of data capitalism. Will it be an age of prosperity or of calamity? This book provides the indispensable roadmap for securing a better future.
Author |
: Christian Fuchs |
Publisher |
: Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745339999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745339993 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism by : Christian Fuchs
In order to fight capitalism in the digital age, we must understand Marx!
Author |
: Robert W. MacChesney |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:437085599 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capitalism and the Information Age by : Robert W. MacChesney