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Performing Technocapitalism

Alev Coban

Bielefeld: Hans Böckler Stiftung transcript (2024), 298 pp.

"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev ... more

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Digitaler Kolonialismus: Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen
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Ingo Dachwitz, Sven Hilbig

München: Beck (2025), 351 pp.

"Das Versprechen der Digitalen Revolution ist die Heilserzählung unsererZeit. Dieses Buch erzählt eine andere Geschichte: Die des digitalen Kolonialismus. Statt physisches Land einzunehmen, erobern die heutigen Kolonialherren den digitalen Raum. Statt nach Gold und Diamanten lassen sie unter mensc ... more

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Media, Economy and Society: A Critical Introduction

Christian Fuchs

London; New York: Routledge (2024), vi, 459 pp.

"This essential guide to the critical study of the media economy in society teaches students how to critically analyse the political economy of communication and the media. The book introduces a variety of methods and topics, including the political economy of communication in capitalism, the politi ... more

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El atlas de la revolución digital: Del sueño libertario al capitalismo de vigilancia
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Pablo Stancanelli (comp.)

Madrid: Clave Intelectual (2020), 123 pp.

"Asociada en sus comienzos a un movimiento libertario horizontal y cooperativo, la Red de redes está siendo cooptada por las grandes corporaciones del capitalismo global y convirtiéndose en un peligroso dispositivo de vigilancia ciudadana. Un proceso que la disrupción provocada por la pandemia de ... more

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The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism

Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press (2019), xxiii, 323 pp.

"Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers ... more

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Digitaler Kapitalismus: Markt und Herrschaft in der Ökonomie der Unknappheit

Philipp Staab

Berlin: Suhrkamp (2019), 344 pp.

"Philipp Staab beleuchtet den digitalen Kapitalismus aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, um ihn präziser auf den Begriff zu bringen. Er zeigt, wie digitale Überwachungs- und Bewertungspraktiken in immer mehr Bereiche der Wirtschaft vordringen und dabei die soziale Ungleichheit verschärfen. Das Sp ... more

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff

London: Profile Books (2019), viii, 691 pp.

"The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that we ... more

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Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization

Vincent Rouzé (ed.)

London: University of Westminster Press (2019), vii, 118 pp.

"Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (and carry out promotional tasks) is a significant shift, especially when supported by morphing public policies, supposedly enhancing cultural diversity and accessibility. The aim of this book is to propo ... more

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Das Kapital sind wir: Zur Kritik der digitalen Ökonomie

Timo Daum

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 268 pp.

"Dass die Digitalisierung die Wirtschaft grundlegend verändert, steht mittlerweile außer Frage. Die technischen Innovationen haben neue Geschäftsfelder eröffnet, neue Formen von Wertschöpfung ermöglicht und Grenzziehungen zwischen Produzenten und Konsumenten ins Wanken gebracht. Aber wie genau ... more

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Geopolitics of Search: Google Versus China?

Shin Joung Yeo

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 4 (2016), pp. 591-605

"This article focuses on the case of Google, the newly emerged US Internet industry and global geographical market expansion. Google's struggles in China, where Chinese domestic Internet firm, Baidu, controls the market, have been commonly presented in the Western mainstream media in terms of a stru ... more

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Políticas de comunicación en el capitalismo contemporáneo: América Latina y sus encrucijadas

Susana Sel (ed.)

Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) (2010), 336 pp.

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Incommunicado Reader

Geert Lovink, Soenk Zehle (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2005), 192 pp.

"Aiming to bring some of the network-cultural forms of collaboration into ICT debates dominated by standard policy and research procedure, the Incommunicado project does not offer a univocal master-narrative of what’s wrong with the world of ICT, or of how it should be. Members of the Incommunicad ... more