Nick Couldry, Ulises A Mejias

The Costs of Connection

How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781503603660
• ISBN-10: 1503603660
• Artikelnr.: 53539769

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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