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The costs of connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism

Year: 2022

Type: book-review

Abstract: Our everyday digital practices (posting social media updates or buying stuff on Amazon) make profits for Big Tech and can understandably be viewed as capitalistic, but are they also colonial? This ...

Source: Information Communication & Society

DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2022.2062254

Author: Vincent Obia

Institution: Birmingham City University

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Studies and Postmodernism

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4225665249

Cites: 2

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10