Many readers will be aware of the context in which these broad changes have happened-namely, the alliance between digital and social media companies and national security agencies formed after 9/11. To begin with, it is driven by the highest theoretical ambition put to the service of enlightening the general public about the fundamental threats to our freedom and dignity represented by the unprecedented and unaccountable concentrations of knowledge and power in the hands of a few capitalists.
Read more.The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a landmark text for many reasons (Zuboff Reference Zuboff2019). Statement on language in description Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Instrumentarian power for a third modernity.Big other and the rise of instrumentarian power.The elaboration of surveillance capitalism : kidnap, corner, compete.The foundations of surveillance capitalism.Includes bibliographical references and index. The threat has shifted from a totalitarian "big brother" state to a universal global architecture of automatic sensors and smart capabilities: A "big other" that imposes a fundamentally new form of power and unprecedented concentrations of knowledge in private companies-free from democratic oversight and control"- Provided by publisher. The consequences of surveillance capitalism for us as individuals and as a society vividly come to life in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism's pathbreaking analysis of power. It is not simply about tracking us and selling ads, it is the business model for an ominous new marketplace that aims at nothing less than predicting and modifying our everyday behavior-where we go, what we do, what we say, how we feel, who we're with. Zuboff tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance capitalism" as an unprecedented new market form. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. "Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Information technology - Social aspects.
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