CPDP 2016: Surveillance capitalism: a new societal condition rising

CPDPConferences   Published on Mar 3, 2016

Surveillance capitalism: A new societal condition rising.

Organized by EPIC

Moderator: Kristina Irion, IViR-UvA (NL)

Panel: Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Member of the Icelandic Parliament (IS), David Lyon, Queens University (CA), Marc Rotenberg, EPIC (US)

Todays accounts of the information economy presumes social progress highlighted by new innovations – such as social network services, global search and smart phone apps. However, the corresponding commodification of personal data is of a magnitude and ubiquity that qualifies as a defining societal condition and signals the onset of a new era: Surveillance capitalism. To Shoshana Zuboff “this new form of information capitalism aims to predict and modify human behavior as a means to produce revenue and market control.” The long-term consequences of this economic transformation may thus be much deeper changes in society than the latest apps. This panel takes a big picture perspective and explores the conditions of surveillance capitalism and how the accumulation of data translates into power and transforms society. In particular, the panel will consider the following questions:

– What is surveillance capitalism? – What are its conditions and drivers? – How does the accumulation of data translate into power? – What societal changes may eventuate as a result of surveillance capitalism?

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Triangulation 380

Triangulation

Published on Jan 11, 2019

Shoshana Zuboff is the author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.’ She talks with Leo Laporte about how social media is being used to influence people.

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Host: Leo Laporte Guest: Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff / Keynote: Reality is the Next Big Thing – Elevate Festival 2014

elevatefestival

Published on May 2, 2016

This Video is a excerpt of the event: Reality is the Next Big Thing from the Elevate Festival 2014. Shoshana Zuboff was participating via Videostream. Click here for the full video of the event: http://vimeo.com/elevatefestival/e14r… Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (retired), and a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. One of the first tenured women at the Harvard Business School, she joined the faculty there in 1981. She earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University and her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. She has been a featured columnist for BusinessWeek.com and Fast Company. Shoshana is also founder of the executive education program Odyssey: School for the Second Half of Life.

Shoshana is currently working on a new book (working title,The Summons: Our Fight for the Soul of an Information Civilization). It will be published by Public Affairs in the US and Eichborn in Germany. The Summons aims to contribute to a new positive narrative of the digital for a post-Snowden world. It integrates her lifelong themes: the historical emergence of psychological individuality, the conditions for human development, the information revolution, and the evolution of capitalism. The Summons begins with the oldest question: master or slave? It explores the origins of information civilization and its prospects. Can information civilization be, perhaps counter-intuitively, a new human turn, despite the seeds of a much darker future that have taken root? What are the urgent social, economic, political, and juridical choices we face? What new forms of institutionalization are needed on the far shore to foster human salience in a civilizational milieu of prosperity, democracy, and shared prospects for survival on a warming planet?

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary

vpro documentary

Published on Dec 20, 2019

Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our data. How do we regain control of our data? What is surveillance capitalism?

In this documentary, Zuboff takes the lid off Google and Facebook and reveals a merciless form of capitalism in which no natural resources, but the citizen itself, serves as a raw material. How can citizens regain control of their data?

It is 2000, and the dot.com crisis has caused deep wounds. How will startup Google survive the bursting of the internet bubble? Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin don’t know anymore how to turn the tide. By chance, Google discovers that the “residual data” that people leave behind in their searches on the internet is very precious and tradable.

This residual data can be used to predict the behavior of the internet user. Internet advertisements can, therefore, be used in a very targeted and effective way. A completely new business model is born: “surveillance capitalism.”

Original title: De grote dataroof

Russia’s Radioactive Past Comes Back To Haunt Its Citizens (HBO)

VICE News

Published on Jun 6, 2017

Anton Kolomitsyn has an unusual hobby: He searches the Russian countryside looking for remnants of past wars. Earlier this year, he made an unexpected find.

The relic hunter stumbled across a Stalin-era bunker with radium paint on the interior walls, used previously to make the bunker glow in the dark. It was one of hundreds on the Russian-Finnish border, aimed to protect the Soviet Union against a northern invasion.

These bunkers are not an anomaly; they are part of a legacy of improperly managed radioactive sites across Russia. During the race to obtain a nuclear weapon during the Cold War, the Soviet Union experimented with a wide variety of nuclear materials. This phase of experimentation occurred under a veil of secrecy, leaving communities in the dark about the risks associated with their exposure.

VICE News reports from Russia’s radioactive hotspots, where residents continue to live amid radiation. We join Kolomitsyn as he tests another bunker for radioactivity and visits the site of the third-largest nuclear meltdown in history, which remained secret for decades.

Russian-Backed Facebook Ads Show 2016 Election Strategy

Bloomberg Technology. Published on May 10, 2018

May.10 — Thousands of Russian-backed Facebook ads, released Thursday by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, show that Russia’s main goal was provoking discontent in the U.S. Bloomberg’s Anna Edgerton and Sarah Frier have more on “Bloomberg Markets.”

Rpt: Banks Turn Over Documents On Russians Possibly Tied To Donald Trump | The Last Word | MSNBC

MSNBC

Published on Aug 8, 2019

The Wall Street Journal reports that several major banks, including Deutsche Bank, have turned over documents related to Russians who may have dealt with Trump, his family or his business to congressional investigators. Lawrence O’Donnell discusses what comes next in the investigations into Trump’s finances with Tim O’Brien and Berit Berger. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc

MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics headlines, as well as commentary and informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, Meet the Press Daily, The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace, Hardball, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and more.

Real Time with Bill Maher: Meet the Climate Change Deniers (HBO)

Real Time with Bill Maher

Published on Nov 11, 2014
Bill Maher illustrates why elections matter when it comes to climate change in this clip from Nov. 7, 2014. Panelists Kristen Soltis Anderson, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Costa and Lisa Kudrow weigh in.

“This Country Is a Tinderbox”: Australia Braces for More Devastation as Gov’t Denies Climate Crisis

Democracy Now!

Published on Jan 3, 2020
Australia is bracing for what is expected to be the worst weekend yet in an already devastating climate-fueled wildfire season that has ravaged the southeastern part of the country, killed at least 18 people and nearly half a billion animals, and destroyed 14.5 million acres of land. As thousands of evacuees fled to the beaches, conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing growing outrage for his inaction on climate and close ties with the coal industry. As fires blazed in December, the prime minister went on a holiday to Hawaii. He told reporters this week that fighting the fires — not climate change — was his top priority. On Thursday, Morrison was shouted out of the town of Carbago after being confronted by angry fire victims. We go to Melbourne, Australia, to speak with Tim Flannery, chief councilor at the Australian-based Climate Council.

Environmental Justice and Racism: Call It for What It Is

Climate One

Published on Jan 3, 2020
Dr. Robert Bullard, Winner of the 2019 Stephen Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication, explains the disconnect between civil rights groups and environmental organizations in tackling environmental justice.