Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media

Nonfiction, Computers, Internet, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
Cover of the book Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media by Sebastian Sevignani, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Sebastian Sevignani ISBN: 9781317380382
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: August 27, 2015
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Sebastian Sevignani
ISBN: 9781317380382
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: August 27, 2015
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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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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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