Monitored : Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data / Peter Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Peter (Social science teacher), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--Political activity.

Corporations.

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

Electronic surveillance.

Liberty.

Big data--Social aspects.

Big data.

Privacy, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages)

Other Title:

Monitored

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2019.

Summary:

The corporate world is watching us, but why does no one watch them? "This book explores a central contradiction of 21st century economy and society: the more morally and politically unaccountable capitalism and capitalists are, the more accountable the mass majority of its subjects must become. The technocratic ideology and surveillance culture of our modern marketized societies hides a deeper reality of a free market that is unmanageable and a corporate elite whose actions cannot be traced let alone regulated. This work highlights the paradoxical way an often disjointed and unjustifiable modern neoliberalism persists through subjecting individuals and communities to a wide range of technical and ethical 'accounting' in all areas of contemporary life. These pervasive practices of monitoring and codifying everything and everyone mask how at its heart this system and its elites remain socially uncontrollable and ethically out of control"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Monitored subjects, unaccountable capitalism

The growing threat of digital control

Surveilling ourselves

Smart realities

Digital salvation

Planning your life at the end of history

Totalitarianism 4.0

The revolution will not be monitored.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-244) and index.

ISBN:

9781786803931

1786803933