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Running head: SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM 1
SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM 7
Surveillance Capitalism-Centered Around Commodification
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Surveillance Capitalism-Centered Around Commodification Annotated Bibliography
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization." Journal of Information Technology 30, no. 1 (March 2015): 75–89.
The first article considered for the annotated bibliography is titled surveillance capitalism and an information civilization's prospects. The report focuses on the emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere. Data extraction and analysis are the two primary lenses of the article. The author further explores the Varian's assertions of the four uses, which stem from the computer-mediated transactions, the data extractions, and analysis of the new contractual forms to better monitoring.
Zuboff. (2019, August 21). The threat of surveillance capitalism and the fight for a human future. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/religion/shoshana-zuboff-threat-of-surveillance-capitalism/11433716
The second article used for the annotated bibliography is titled the threat surveillance capitalism and the fight for the human future. This was authored by Shoshana Zuboff and published in 019 has focused on the secrets of new capitalism and how they can make staggering wealth such as Google and how we can safeguard ourselves for these invasive powers. Further insights regarding how capitalism has been hijacked by the surveillance are discussed in the article.
The author offers insights on that Most Americans understand that there are two gatherings of checked routinely as they move about the nation. The primary crowd is observed automatically by a court request necessitating that a GPS beacon is joined to their lower leg. The next gathering incorporates every other person. The author opens our eyes to the lots of people being monetizing data today as one provides free information to companies like Google, they will sell the data. Private enterprise has been commandeered by a worthwhile observation venture that undercuts the "typical" developmental systems related with its chronicled achievement and debases the solidarity of gracefully and requests that has for quite a long time, anyway defectively, fastened free enterprise to the veritable needs of its populaces and social orders, hence empowering the productive extension of market majority rule government.
Sevignan. (2013, December 6). (PDF) The commodification of privacy on the Internet. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275309072_The_commodification_of_privacy_on_the_Internet
The third article considered for the assignment is tilted commodification of privacy on the Internet, authored by Sebastian Sevignani and published in 2013. From a political economy viewpoint on an open arrangement, this paper investigates the commodification of security on the Internet as a pragmatic financial and a desultory cycle. On the one hand, predominant online plans of action struggle basically with clients' requirement for protection, and the users themselves take a shot at their weakness in such manner ("(PDF) The commodification of privacy on the internet," 2013). Then again, there is a private talk that is possessive individualistic; however, comprehensively advises the public policy process.
The author has insightfully demonstrated in this paper, and there is a problematic connection between protection as standard freedom and privacy as an item in entrepreneur market societies. From this understanding, it very well may be gotten that, although useful in progressing political discussions, the conceptualization of security as a common right or freedom probably won't be sufficient to break with the ware rationale. Interestingly, are thinking of security should focus on a more social conception of protection. I believe such a social origination will become more possible and helpful the more non-market circles on the Internet and society develop, but certain viewpoints would already be named.
Lyon, D. (2019). Surveillance capitalism, surveillance culture, and data politics 1. Data Politics, 64-77. doi:10.4324/9781315167305-4
The fourth article considered for the annotated bibliography is titled surveillance capitalism, surveillance culture, and data politics, authored by David Lyon and published in 2017. The author focused mainly on the escalation of the levels of data dependency. He demonstrates surveillance as the main characteristic of interactions between governments and enterprises, businesses, and all organizations. It remains an aspect of everyday life.
The article offers insights regarding why surveillance is emerging as a critical aspect of our everyday life, as witnessed in mundane imageries and practices like complacent data donation social rankings.However, the author insightfully demonstrates that these trends do not reflect innocent cultural developments and practices as they echo and embody an emerging political action stage, which is termed as surveillance capitalism.
Zuboff. (2019, April 18). The age of surveillance capitalism | Diggit magazine. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332495602_The_age_of_surveillance_capitalism_Diggit_Magazine
The fifth and final article considered for the annotated bibliography is titled the age of surveillance capitalism, authored by Zuboff and focused on how Google and Facebook provide a new form of capitalism as the humans utilizing such platforms are the staff which the surveillance capitalists scrap their raw materials. The surveillance capitalisms use the human experiences as the raw materials for translations into behavioral data. The article demonstrates that the extraction imperative is driven b he mere desires of making profits.
The article offers critical insights in demonstrating that behavioral capitalism is attempting to acquire data at the lowest possible cost and turn it into profits. One of the economic principals of surveillance capitalism is offered which is extraction imperative which necessitates the economies of scale... productivity is as good as the amount of data gathered, the available computing capacities and sophistication in the machine learning mechanisms. The economies of scope rests on the axiom that the behavioral surplus ought not only to be vast but also varied in their depths.
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Big other: Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization - Article - Harvard business school. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49122
Sevignan. (2013, December 6). (PDF) The commodification of privacy on the Internet. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275309072_The_commodification_of_privacy_on_the_Internet
Zuboff. (2019, August 21). The threat of surveillance capitalism and the fight for a human future. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/religion/shoshana-zuboff-threat-of-surveillance-capitalism/11433716
Lyon, D. (2019). Surveillance capitalism, surveillance culture, and data politics 1. Data Politics, 64-77. doi:10.4324/9781315167305-4