The Costs of Connection

Autorentext

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Ulises A. Mejias is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, College at Oswego.

Klappentext

The driving force behind this book is the idea that something big is happening with data, a new phase of colonial extraction that is annexing human life to capitalism and in the process building a new social economic order--one that must be resisted if human autonomy is to be protected.cted.

Zusammenfassung
The driving force behind The Costs of Connection is the idea that something big is happening with data, a new phase of colonial extraction that is annexing human life to capitalism and in the process building a new social economic order - one that must be resisted if human autonomy is to be protected.

Inhalt

Preface: Colonized by Data

1. The Capitalization of Life without Limit
2. Cloud Empire
   Interlude: On Colonialism and the Decolonial Turn
3. The Coloniality of Data Relations
4. The Hollowing Out of the Social
5. Data and the Threat to Human Autonomy
6. Decolonizing Data
   Postscript: Another Path Is Possible