: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data Chandler, David Fuchs, Christian University of Westminster Press text technical report xxu London : University of Westminster Press 2019 monographic eng

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pdf 242 p. : il. ; 1 documento PDF This volume explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims – in theory and via dialogue – and of the digital’s impact on society and the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and societytheory and society. specialized / edited by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs This book distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Copyright is retained by the author(s) Tecnologías habilitadoras digitales Big data digital humanities digital technologies networked authoritarianism social science surveillance society 978-1-912656-08-0 (hardback) 978-1-912656-09-7 (PDF) 978-1-912656-10-3 (epub) https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book29/download/2524/ https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book29/download/2524/ This book distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Copyright is retained by the author(s) ES-MaONT 191017 20211006062623.0 00005439