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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.
