Surveillance: The DNA of platform capital — The case of Cambridge Analytica put into perspective

This paper places the case of Cambridge Analytica's theft of data from Facebook user profiles into a larger context of the growing importance of surveillance in modern-day capitalism. It argues that in the current phase of capitalism, data, particularly user data, is becoming a 'fictitious...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manokha, I
Format: Journal article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018