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  • Digital Objects, Digital Subjects

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data

    David Chandler, Christian Fuchs (eds.)

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    This volume explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims – in theory and via dialogue – and of the digital’s impact on society and the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society.

    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and details about KU’s Open Access programme can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.

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      Review from 28 Oct 2019: Society & Space
      Digital Objects, Digital Subjects, Edited By David Chandler And Christian Fuchs

      Luis F. Alvarez León

      This book is a timely set of dialogues on a series of key coordinates to navigate the political economy of Big Data Capitalism. Chandler and Fuchs have successfully composed a well-rounded volume addressing a wide range of urgent themes that include…

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      Review from 23 Jan 2020: Organization Studies
      Book Review: Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary perspectives on capitalism, labour and politics in the age of big data

      Marcos Barros

      The reason why you should read Chandler and Fuchs’ Digital Objects, Digital Subjects (2019) is plainly obvious given the fact that valuation of Big Data, according to The Economist,1 has recently surpassed the combined wealth in global oil reserves.…

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    Chandler D. & Fuchs C. (eds.) 2019. Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book29
    Chandler, D. and Fuchs, C., 2019. Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book29
    Chandler, Dand C Fuchs. Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data. University of Westminster Press, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book29
    Chandler, D., & Fuchs, C. (2019). Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book29
    Chandler, David, and Christian Fuchs. 2019. Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book29




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    Published on Jan. 29, 2019

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    248

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