The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

Type Book Author Nick Couldry Author Ulises A. Mejias URL https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781503609754/html Publisher Stanford University Press ISBN 978-1-5036-0975-4 Date 2019-08-20 Extra DOI: 10.1515/9781503609754 Publication Title: The Costs of Connection Accessed 2022-07-26 19:46:32 Library Catalog www.degruyter.com Language en Abstract The driving force behind The Costs of Connection is the idea that something big is happening with data, a new phase of colonial extraction that is annexing human life to capitalism and in the process building a new social economic order — one that must be resisted if human autonomy is to be protected. Short Title The Costs of Connection