The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Description
Shoshana Zuboff examines the rise of surveillance capitalism, a new economic order built on extracting personal experience, analyzing behavior, and turning predictions about human actions into valuable commodities. Moving from the origins of digital platforms to their expanding influence across everyday life, she reveals how technologies designed for convenience and connection can also enable unprecedented forms of monitoring and behavioral influence. The book explores the consequences for privacy, autonomy, democracy, and human freedom, while tracing the immense concentrations of knowledge and power accumulating beyond meaningful public oversight. Both a landmark work of social analysis and a warning about the future of the digital age, it challenges readers to reconsider who controls the information systems that increasingly shape society.
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hardcover
Public Affairs
Published Jan 1, 2019
704 pages
ISBN: 9781610395694
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First Published
2019
Language
eng
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