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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"surveillance capitalism"”.
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Adversarial interiors : a home security system in the age of surveillance capitalism
… current generation has become a society of self-surveillance. In a time marked by emerging debates of digital ownership and privacy, these concerns are encroaching into the territory of domestic space. Millions of recordings featuring private interiors can be modeled, mapped and archived in a …
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COVID-19 and the decline of autonomy: contact tracing in the age of surveillance capitalism
… expanding on the known means of public health surveillance by collaborating with privately owned corporates and implementing new forms of surveillance technology, namely, contact tracing applications. This study examines the long-standing history of surveillance as well as the shifts in public …
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Beyond the click: interventions in digital adspace
This thesis undertakes an ethnographic study of surveillance capitalism and contemporary marketing techniques as they are found in motion. In particular Google, its AdWords marketing platform, and its extensive network of adspace are explored through empirical research to establish: how …
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The gilded closet : media, privacy, and power in unequal times
… networked media in the 2010s with the rise of surveillance capitalism and what some refer to as a Second Gilded Age. Drawing on Marxist and Queer theorists to analyze the inherent power structures across media, privacy, sexuality, and wealth, this text exposes new media environments as …
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Exploring Definitional Power in the Digital Age: A Case Study of Right to be Forgotten Framing
… larger political economy of personal information—surveillance capitalism—has deeply informed the RTBF definitional process. This context has led economic actors to wield considerable definitional power to influence framing of the RTBF, given its connection to control of personal data. Dominant …
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Cashing in on Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in the United States
… quantities of student data, is an example of surveillance capitalism that enables predatory marketing practices surrounding the college admissions process. I rely upon historical research, policy analysis, primary source research, and interviews in order to analyze the actions of the College …
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Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect
… institutional erasure, and the aesthetics of surveillance capitalism. Drawing from personal experience as a former propagandist for the U.S. Army, my work locates propaganda not only in public messaging but in material culture, digital environments, and domestic space. </p> <p>Alongside …
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Big Data, Surveillance, and the Digital Citizen
… an analysis of the impact of pervasive online surveillance on the relationship between the digital citizen and corporations, the state, and politics in order to argue that the United Kingdom is emerging as a surveillance state in which individual’s relationship with society is remade to their …
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The Representation of the Violated Body and its Spectatorship: the Negative Approach (1970s to 2016)
… machine vision and AI and Zuboff’s research on surveillance capitalism that I find essential to the field of violence representation and particularly for the ‘negative’ approach. Their findings reveal tectonic changes to previous modes of thinking and action and indicate a need for a further …
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Digitalization, Marketization and Authoritarianism in Ethiopia: Towards New Political Economy of Power [védés előtt]
… continues to subordinate society to market and surveillance logic without social safeguards, enhancing authoritarian consolidation, blocking democratic prospects. As the macro-level analysis indicated, the strong negative relationship between trade openness, capital formation, and mobile …
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Women s Reproductive Bodies and Labour as The Premise for The Survival of The Capitalist System: A Transnational Feminist Inquiry into Contemporary and Speculative Future Forms of Capital Accumulation
This dissertation examines how capitalism has remained predicated upon women's reproductive bodies and labour in the contemporary moment and its possibilities for the future. Relevant to the current aftermath of overturning Roe v. Wade, this research incorporates the concepts of gender, race, …
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Personal data sovereignty : a sustainable interface layer for a human centered data ecosystem
… generation challenges the notion of privacy, as Surveillance Capitalism and Nation State endeavour to record and analyse personal data with the objective of leveraging influence and control. It is argued that this centralised model threatens to stifle the digital economy, destabilise our …
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Digital Marketing and the Culture Industry: The Ethics of Big Data
… collateral damage that constitute the birth of surveillance capitalism (Zuboff 2019). In the third article, I turn to systemic racism in American sport with the focus on the performative rituals sanctioned, censored, and sold by the NFL as its foremost culture industry. In this last article, I …
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The ability of surveillance capitalist technology firms to resist U.S. government surveillance
… technology firms to resist U.S. government surveillance. A political science adaptation of Affordance Theory was used to separate methods used to resist surveillance into four affordances: legal, political, technical, and market. Review of each firms’ actions provided a more granular …
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The Commodification of Personal Data: Individuals' Control Through the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation
… bargains, which are systemic to the commercial surveillance which forms the basis for the commodification of personal data. The thesis examines the possibility of a right of control to be found in the data processing principles in Article 5 GDPR by way of the jurisprudential concept of …