The costs of connection : how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism
- Submitting institution
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The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 18838626
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- ISBN
- 9781503603660
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This research monograph of 100,000 words presents an original theoretical approach to the transformation of contemporary societies and economies through data. Specifically, it rethinks data processes in not just one but many areas (social life, social knowledge, law, education, health). This required reinterpreting multiple literatures, analysing a large corpus of press material, and combining multiple new concepts (data colonialism, data relations, social quantification sector, space of the self) into a synthetic critical framework that reworks social theory, colonial history, postcolonial theory, and ethics. This required 18 months of reading and conceptual preparation and a further 18 months of intensive writing.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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