Surveillance capitalism

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Apple’s 1984 ad: from digital utopianism to hyper-opticon

Article

Ico Maly

22/01/2024

20 minutes to read

Apple's 1984 ad promised digital liberation, but today's reality reveals pervasive surveillance and a techno-feudalism. The utopian dream has transformed into a dystopian era of mind control and exploitation by digital platforms.

Nebula: A (partially) creator-owner streaming service

Nebula: What does creator-owned mean?

Article

Joël Eduard Nicholas Grassère

11/10/2023

21 minutes to read

Nebula is a streaming site that combines capitalist and socialist ideas. Worker exploitation and commodified individualism are addressed on the site, through infrastructures. Meanwhile, they also provide a platform for leftist discourses

Pokémon Go as a Self-Tracking Application

Paper

Chi-chieh Huang

04/12/2020

24 minutes to read

By examining voices from Pokémon Go communities and developers, this article aims to formulate Pokémon Go as a gamified self-tracking application that could play a part in individuals' betterment of themselves.

Why we let Web 2.0 become the modern-day Stasi

Article

Lisa van Turnhout

11/01/2020

14 minutes to read

This article contemplates how our "culture of connectivity" brings forth privacy issues reminding us of government surveillance in East Germany. How does this work, and how do we all contribute to this culture?

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The age of surveillance capitalism ( Shoshana Zuboff)

Review

Ico Maly

13/02/2019

12 minutes to read

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff deserves a productive public and academic debate. It should not only be read and discussed by a broad audience. Scholars across disciplines must engage with it.