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A historical and systemic perspective of surveillance capitalism
Revista Inteligência Empresarial, 2019
It is possible that surveillance capitalism has been built from a succession of failures, events and opportunities, perceived or built in various "baskets" and perspectives, in different contexts, but somehow coordinated. Technical, behavioral, legal, economic, social and structural aspects need to be observed in this construction. This article explore this possibility, and is a translation of a Portuguese version published on DEC/2019 in Revista Inteligência Empresarial.
The threat of surveillance capitalism
Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales
Using Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the essay explores this latest form of capitalism and Zuboff’s claims about its organization. Her arguments are compared and contrasted with David Eggers novel, and the movie that came out of it, called The Circle, as well as other perspectives on capitalism (Marx, Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger) and the current dominance of social media companies (especially Alphabet/Google, Facebook, and Amazon) from Evgeny Morozov, Natasa Dow Schüll, Zeynep Tufekci, Steve Mann and Tim Wu. Zuboff’s description and critique of Surveillance Capitalism is a convincing and important addition to our understanding of the political economy of the early 21st Century and the role of giant monopolistic social media companies in shaping it.
Surveillance Capitalism in an Age of Neoliberal Rationality
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The Surveillance Capitalism concept explains the capitalist accumulation logic of large digital companies in tracking internet users, extracting personal data and in changing behavior. This article aims to question the concept from a perspective that considers the participation of internet users in their own surveillance. The proposed new approach results from the conception of neoliberalism as the rationality of the contemporary capitalism that requires a new subjective order anchored in the production of a society formed by enterprise units involved constantly in the development of their human capital to compete in social relationships in all spheres of existence. Accordingly, it is believed that the online surveillance conducted by the large corporations and the expropriation of the human experience that results is only one part of the story. The other part is the perpetual search for individuals performance in relationships with others and with themselves.
The age of surveillance capitalism | Diggit Magazine.pdf
Diggit Magazine, 2019
The age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff deserves a productive public and academic debate. It should not only be read and discussed by a broad audience; we can only hope that scholars across disciplines engage with her argument, finetune and improve it.
Society in the shackles of surveillance capitalism
Economic Science for Rural Development
The rapid development of information and communications technologies has changed the lives of both - society as a whole and individuals in it. The world is becoming a huge system for gathering, storing, and sharing information. Large amounts of data are collected, stored, analysed, and used for commercial purposes. Prominent American sociologist Shoshana Zuboff calls this process "surveillance capitalism." This paper aims to analyse the tools of surveillance capitalism and the influence of surveillance capitalism on public choices and behaviour. It is based on empirical information collected using several research methods - a survey (n = 204), semi-structured interviews (n = 5), and qualitative content analysis. The paper analyses three popular surveillance capitalists' online tools - Google search, Facebook, and Twitter and gives insights into society's preferences and behaviour patterns concerning ways of obtaining information and attitudes towards privacy and se...
The age of surveillance capitalism | Diggit Magazine
Diggit Magazine, 2019
The age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff deserves a productive public and academic debate. It should not only be read and discussed by a broad audience; we can only hope that scholars across disciplines engage with her argument, finetune and improve it.
Behavioural Capitalism and Surveillance Capitalism - A Comparison of Two Interpretations of a Development of Capitalism, 2019
Within a very short period of time, technological development has made new business models possible, shifted power relations and, in the end, created a new form of capitalism. This development is often viewed critically, but so far this debate still lacks a structure and models with which a targeted and also simple classification can take place as a basis for a broad discussion. There are already first attempts to establish these and two interpretations of this evolution will be dealt with in the following. The aims of this writing are: 1) To compare two fundamental interpretations of the development of capitalism 2) To contribute to making this new phenomenon describable and giving it a mediable structure 3) To create a basis for discussion on the opportunities and risks of capitalist development. It should be noted from the outset that the author of this paper is also the author of the treatises on Behavioral Capitalism. - Behavioural Capitalism regards the absorption and use of behavioural data as a logical capitalist further development in historical continuity and thus as an inevitable development. - Surveillance Capitalism distinguishes between behaviour that is needed to optimise existing services and data that is not needed for them. He considers the use of " behavior surpluses" as an explicitly man-made, non-compulsory and degenerate form of capitalism, the ultimate goal of which is the accumulation of power, wealth and influence. - Behaviour has always been a raw material for Behavioural Capitalism, which has become a production factor through technical development. - In Surveillance Capitalism, the so-called "surplus behaviour" was discovered by Google and exploited free of charge by this and other companies. - Behavioural Capitalism sees both the opportunities and the risks of this development. - Surveillance Capitalism, on the other hand, is interpreted exclusively negatively. - Behavioural Capitalism stands in a context from which it cannot be torn, and knowledge of these connections is indispensable for dealing with it and understanding it. - Surveillance Capitalism is an isolated construct, ultimately created a few years ago, whose authorship can be found among others at Google and can therefore also be combated in this way.
Private and Public in Surveillance Capitalism
Acta economica et turistica
The paper deals with the protection of the private and public spheres in surveillance capitalism. Predictions on consumer behaviour or the so-called behavioural surpluses are extracted from the set of collected (big) data of users/consumers from the so-called digital footprints, which become intelligence data, commodities on the data market. In addition to predicting user behaviour, various behavioural techniques push, or nudge users in a particular desired consumer or political direction or action, or dark nudge techniques when it comes to unauthorized data collection on users in the digital sphere. Surveiling and nudging users is done in the range from caring for their health, well-being and benefits, as well as general and public well-being, to encouraging expenditure, desired behaviour or voting in the desired direction of subjects who create such incentives (corporations, political parties, governments, etc.). The subject of the paper is based on behavioural economics which has...