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Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society) by Sebastian Sevignani is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book explores commodification processes of personal data and provides a critical framing of the ongoing debate of privacy in the Internet age, using the example of social media and referring to interviews with users. It advocates and expands upon two main theses: First, people’s privacy is structurally invaded in contemporary informational capitalism. Second, the best response to this problem is not accomplished by invoking the privacy framework as it stands, because it is itself part of the problematic nexus that it struggles against. Informational capitalism poses weighty problems for making the Internet a truly social medium, and aspiring to sustainable privacy simultaneously means to struggle against alienation and exploitation. In the last instance, this means opposing the capitalist form of association – online and offline.

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Author

Sebastian Sevignani

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315674841

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Computer Science