Digital Culture & Society (DCS): Vol. 7, Issue 2/2021 - Networked Images in Surveillance Capitalism

Digital Culture & Society (DCS): Vol. 7, Issue 2/2021 - Networked Images in Surveillance Capitalism
ISBN-10
3839453887
ISBN-13
9783839453889
Series
Digital Culture & Society (DCS)
Category
Social Science
Pages
337
Language
English
Published
2022-07-31
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Authors
Ramón Reichert, Olga Moskatova, Anna Polze

Description

Capturing personal data in exchange for free services is now ubiquitous in networked media and recently led to diagnoses of surveillance and platform capitalism. In social media discourse, dataveillance and data mining have been criticized as new forms of digital work and capitalist exploitation for some time. From social photos, selfies and image communities on the internet to connected viewing and streaming, and video conferencing during the Corona pandemic - the digital image is not only predominantly networked but also accessed through platforms and structured by their economic imperatives, data acquisition techniques and algorithmic processing. In this issue, the contributors show how participation and commodification are closely linked in the production, circulation, consumption and operativity of images and visual communication, raising the question of the role networked images play for and within the proliferating surveillance capitalism.

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