Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media: 18 (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society) - Image 1

£131.84

Routledge Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media: 18 (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)

Name: Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media: 18 (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 131.84 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 45 days • 45 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 45 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £132 (45 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £132 - £132

Price levels: 1 different prices over 45 days

Description

Product Description 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. Review "Private sphere, private property, private data, private investors, private concerns, private initiative, private schools and education - capitalism is obsessed with the private and with possessive individualism. Sebastian Sevignani shows in Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media how digital capitalism has transformed aspects of privacy in the context of social media. This book is an outstanding rigorous study of social media privacy and an essential guide and must-read for anyone who wants to understand why the privacy critique of social media is too one-dimensional and needs to be complemented with a critique of the exploitation of digital labour, a critique of the commodification of data, and a critique of the alienation caused by targeted advertising and commerce. Sevignani eloquently shows why an alternative social media landscape that transcends capitalism is urgently needed."- Professor Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, author of Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media and Digital Labour and Karl Marx "In the age of informational capitalism, when the borders between the public and the private, the commercial and the personal as well as surveillance and protection are notoriously blurred and blundered, this thoughtful, illuminative and provocative book is of vital importance for all who care about the economic interests, the normative issues and the political options at stake." - Professor Hartmut Rosa, Institute of Sociology, University of Jena, Germany About the Author Sebastian Sevignani is a member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Austria, and Assistant Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena’s Department of Sociology, Germany.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138939595
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 October 2015
Listed Since: 01 April 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media: 18 (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Social Media: A Critical Introduction

Routledge Critical Theory and Social Media Sociology Book

Privacy and Security in the Digital Age: Privacy in the Age of Super-Technologies

Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society: Refining Privacy Impact Assessment (Routledge New Security Studies)

Routledge Internet and Surveillance: Web 2.0 and Social Media

Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on Capital Volume 1

Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World

Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness: Profit for Free? (Dynamics of Virtual Work)

Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society)

The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media (Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies)

Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory - Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media (Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies)

On Privacy (Thinking in Action)

Privacy in the Information Society: Volume II (The Library of Essays on Law and Privacy)

Surveillance Education: Navigating the Conspicuous Absence of Privacy in Schools (Critical Interventions)

The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective (Routledge Revivals)

Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance (Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice)

Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Routledge - The Dark Side of Marketing Communications Book

Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media: Higher Diversities (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Routledge Activism on the Web - Digital Capitalism Research

The Digital Prism: Transparency and Managed Visibilities in a Datafied World

Digital and Social Media Regulation: A Comparative Perspective of the US and Europe

Activism on the Web: Everyday Struggles against Digital Capitalism (Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research)