The costs of connection : how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism /
Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 323 pages).
- Culture and economic life .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The capitalization of life without limit -- Cloud empire -- Interlude : on colonialism and the decolonial turn -- The coloniality of data relations -- The hollowing out of the social -- Data and the threat to human autonomy -- Decolonizing data -- Postscript : another path is possible.
9781503609754
2019011408
Information technology--Social aspects. Internet--Social aspects. Electronic data processing--Social aspects. Capitalism--Social aspects.