Costs of Connection - How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Couldry, Nick Mejias Couldry, Nick/ Mejias Couldry, Ulises Mejias, Ulises A Mejias, Ulises A. Mejias
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781503603660
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0366-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Culture and Economic Life; Culture and Economic Life
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft, Medienwissenschaften: Internet, digitale Medien und Gesellschaft; Digitalisierung, Ethische und soziale Fragen der IT