Deconstructing digital capitalism and the smart society : invasive platforms, unchecked monopolies, humane alternatives /
"Today's critics of big online platforms tend to consider privacy breaches, monopolistic practices, and the deployment of surveillance technologies as the main problems. Internet reformers suggest the answers to these issues reside in more-and better-regulations. While the questions of pri...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Contemporary capitalism and the rise of data colonialism
- The Internet : from a government-owned network to a privatized one
- Moving towards surveillance advertising led by Google
- Identifying the distinctive features of various types of online platforms
- The wider array of smart tech devices and systems
- The smart self and algorithmic management expanded and intensified
- Smart homes and smart cities : hype about benefits versus drawbacks for users
- Smart technologies, city surveillance and predictive policing
- Moves to rein in capitalism interlocked with data colonialism
- Taking up the challenges of regulating artificial intelligence
- Proposals to deprivatize the Internet and foster platform socialism
- Competing digital empires and the future of platform capitalism globally.