Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media
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Commercial Social Media
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data commodification
Digital Labour Debate
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Economic Surveillance
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exploitation online
Immaterial Labour
informational
Informational Capitalism
Material Economic Commodification
Possessive Individualistic Ideology
Privacy Invasion
Privacy Notions
Privacy Theories
Public Private Distinction
qualitative user interviews
social alienation
Social Media
Social Media Corporations
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Social Media’s Terms
Social Networking Site Provider
Social Privacy
structural privacy invasion in capitalism
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- ISBN 9781138939592
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores commodification processes of personal data and provides a critical framing of the ongoing debate of privacy in the Internet age, using the example of social media and referring to interviews with users. It advocates and expands upon two main theses: First, people’s privacy is structurally invaded in contemporary informational capitalism. Second, the best response to this problem is not accomplished by invoking the privacy framework as it stands, because it is itself part of the problematic nexus that it struggles against. Informational capitalism poses weighty problems for making the Internet a truly social medium, and aspiring to sustainable privacy simultaneously means to struggle against alienation and exploitation. In the last instance, this means opposing the capitalist form of association – online and offline.
Sebastian Sevignani is a member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Austria, and Assistant Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena’s Department of Sociology, Germany.
