Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance capitalism and democracy
The collection and analysis of data is changing the way economies operate. Are these changes so fundamental that they can be said to have led to the emergence of a new form of capitalism - surveillance capitalism? If people’s behaviour is made increasingly transparent, do we become a society in which trust is no longer necessary? Are individuals a mere appendage to the digital machine, objects of new mechanisms which reward and punish according to the determinations of private capital? How is social cohesion affected when people become dispensable as a labour force, while their data continues to provide function as a source of value in lucrative new markets that trade in predictions of human behaviour? How should we understand the new quality of power that arises from these unprecedented conditions? What kind of society does it aim to create? And what ramifications will these developments have for the principles of liberal democracy? Will privacy law and anti-trust law be enough? How can we tame what we do not yet understand?
Shoshana Zuboff is a social scientist and author of three books, each of which has been recognised as the definitive signal of a new epoch in technological society. Her latest book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism reveals a world in which technology users are no longer customers but the raw material for an entirely new economic system. Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School and was a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School from 2014 until 2016.
Making Sense of the Digital Society
The current rapid pace of technological change creates enormous uncertainties - and thus the need for explanations that help us better understand our situation and shape the future. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) are therefore continuing the Lecture Series Making Sense of the Digital Society that was launched in 2017. The aim of the format is to develop a European perspective on the current processes of transformation and its societal impact. The first speaker of this year’s series was sociologist Eva Illouz, followed by Dirk Baecker, José van Dijck and Louise Amoore. The event with Shoshana Zuboff on 6 November is part of the Berlin Science Week 2019 and the keynote of the DigiKomm conference 2019.
More information about the event and the lecture series: www.hiig.de/en/events/shoshan...
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one of the few intellectuals that isn't impossible to understand and is quite the delight to listen to. what a cool lady!
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Shoshanna has a beautiful mind. Thank you for fighting for humanity.
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We became a human commodity in 1913 when the federal reserve began. In the 1930's (Look on your birth certificate, the number given to each person from the federal reserve is there to keep count for money to be printed, debt based money for perpetual slavery) to begin printing more money, the govt. began the scheme to print money based on the equivalent of the citizen born, it's earnings and tax revenue, would regulate how much money could be printed. Then Immigration began as a profit, for each one they could print even more money. Then they began printing money on future citizens before they were even born yet. Now our national debt has been laid at the feet of those yet to exist, which is our debt creates slavery, and slavery of 3 or 4 generations to yet come to be. We are slaves who are brainwashed that we are free, and vote in what we think is a democracy when the choices are not choices at all, but just whom ever they present as candidates, who regardless of party, are controlled by the banksters/federal reserve. We are so screwed. FYI, I for one, left FB the day that I realized that serveillance was their profits, and the hot mic quote by Zuckerberg of "Our customers are fucking stupid"! I quit that day, from daily use, to completely vanishing from that world. I came back for 2 or 3 visits at the 2016 election, to see what the sheeple were thinking, and my page was covered with liberal crap, adds from the democratic party (I'm independent) and when I made a comment I was barraged by libtards I never met, and was amazed at the manipulation, the name calling and berrating for not marching to the tune of the brainwashed democrats, and calling me racist, a Nazi etc. was bizzare, so I came back once or twice to laugh when Trump won, and never clicked back.
Is my big brother watching me watching this video? How surveillance tortures me 24/7 is painful. Great lecture Ms. Zuboff.
She mentions how much we rely on whistle blowers. Vox has a video on how badly we fail our whistle blowers, to point their lives are destroyed, even despite it improving from being even worse. We need to fight to improve this.
Absolutely Brilliant. ...People wake up ..
What a waste of technology when designed to keep us shopping. Too bad consumerism is killing the planet. That is how stupid these systems have made us.
People who are taking selfie shots don't know they are holding a gun.
thks to shoshana Zuboff ;) really clever human
Very refreshing indeed to listen to a female who is equally efficient in leading us in this intellectual discourse. Bravo Shoshana! thank you for lighting the path
Great to see this stuff rising in discussion. The fear and dread here is that after Surveillance Capitalism comes Surveillance State.
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The sad paranoia here is that the lack of will power in younger people currently, may cause them in that 'numbing state' for god knows how many years or decades to come. She seems like such a great human.. I hope we get our shit together for her to witness some light.
Sometimes when watching/listening to programs like this , the language is in Chinese to me. Shoshana is brilliant and puts things in ways that makes it very understandable to all !
They'll never make it illegal there's too much money behind it
Thank you for sharing this video and I hope you are able to continue vital reports !
This is why CASH never must be banned.
What are the names, familiy connections, beliefs, religions and national loyalties of the people who control digital surveillance?