The Spirit of Digital Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781509553952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Huberman

Recenzje

"With energetic purpose and grounded arguments, Huberman lays out the ideological spirit animating digital capitalism. This book shows how the avatars of digital capitalism -- through the use (and abuse) of concepts like convenience -- seek to convince us to embrace this new regime."Jathan Sadowski, Monash University"If there is one book you plan to read or assign this year to get a handle on why today's digital world feels inescapable, it should be this. Huberman offers readers crisp, elegant prose dissecting contemporary cases of the material consequences that befall us all when a few elites are gripped by an ideology of digital progress. This is at once a synthetic treatise on why we are where we are and a roadmap for pushing against the soullessness of digital economies."Mary Gray, Microsoft Research and Harvard University

Spis treści

Detailed Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: An Occupational HazardIntroduction: The Digital Age and the Spirits of CapitalismChapter 1: The Spirit of Competition: Crowdsourcing through Incentive CompetitionsChapter 2: The Spirit of Collaboration: Crowdsourcing through CommunitiesChapter 3: The Spirit of the Game:Smartphone Apps and the Digital Extraction of Surplus ValueChapter 4: In the Spirit of Convenience:Amazon Go and Surveillance CapitalismChapter 5: The Spirit of the Gift: The Work of Techno-philanthropyConclusion: The Spirit and Contradictions of Digital CapitalismBibliographyEndnotes

O autorze

Jenny Huberman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.