Surveillance capitalism as white world-making
The era of ‘surveillance capitalism’ as a new logic of accumulation that claims human experience as free raw material necessitates an understanding of how corporate-controlled digital communication technologies govern and structure how we come to know the world. This article investigates surveillan...
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University of the Free State
2021-07-01
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The era of ‘surveillance capitalism’ as a new logic of accumulation that claims human experience as free raw material necessitates an understanding of how corporate-controlled digital communication technologies govern and structure how we come to know the world. This article investigates surveillance capitalist operations and argues that it enables (1) algorithmic colonisation, (2) oppressive digital practices that reify bias along racial lines, and (3) the turning of bodies into objects in the creation and maintenance of whiteness. Through presenting these different arguments, a larger
point emerges, namely, that surveillance capitalist operations must be understood as intimately tied to the
project of white world-making.
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| spelling | doaj.art-458dea6d49b64a6b88848611594dba472024-03-11T23:03:19ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792021-07-01531Surveillance capitalism as white world-makingYvonne Jooste0University of Pretoria, South Africa The era of ‘surveillance capitalism’ as a new logic of accumulation that claims human experience as free raw material necessitates an understanding of how corporate-controlled digital communication technologies govern and structure how we come to know the world. This article investigates surveillance capitalist operations and argues that it enables (1) algorithmic colonisation, (2) oppressive digital practices that reify bias along racial lines, and (3) the turning of bodies into objects in the creation and maintenance of whiteness. Through presenting these different arguments, a larger point emerges, namely, that surveillance capitalist operations must be understood as intimately tied to the project of white world-making. http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/5256surveillance capitalismdigital surveillanceracial surveillance capitalismalgorithmic biasalgorithmic colonisation |
| spellingShingle | Yvonne Jooste Surveillance capitalism as white world-making Acta Academica surveillance capitalism digital surveillance racial surveillance capitalism algorithmic bias algorithmic colonisation |
| title | Surveillance capitalism as white world-making |
| title_full | Surveillance capitalism as white world-making |
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| title_short | Surveillance capitalism as white world-making |
| title_sort | surveillance capitalism as white world making |
| topic | surveillance capitalism digital surveillance racial surveillance capitalism algorithmic bias algorithmic colonisation |
| url | http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/5256 |
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