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The costs of connection : how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Couldry, Nick (Author), Mejias, Ulises Ali (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
Series:Culture and economic life.
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects.
Internet > Social aspects.
Electronic data processing > Social aspects.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The capitalization of life without limit
  • Cloud empire
  • Interlude : on colonialism and the decolonial turn
  • The coloniality of data relations
  • The hollowing out of the social
  • Data and the threat to human autonomy
  • Decolonizing data
  • Postscript : another path is possible.