The Costs of Connection
The Costs of Connection
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连接成本
作者：
N. Couldry;U. Mejías
现在，几乎任何社会需求都有机会通过数字手段“连接”。但这种便利并不是免费的，它是通过大量的个人数据通过秘密渠道转移到公司来获取利润。《连接的代价》揭示了这个过程，这个“数据殖民主义”，以及它控制我们生活的设计--我们的认知方式、我们的生产手段、我们的政治参与。殖民主义可能看起来像是过去的事情，但这本书表明，历史上对土地，身体和自然资源的占用反映在今天这个普遍的殖民化的新时代。应用程序、平台和智能对象捕获我们的生活并将其转换为数据，然后提取信息，这些信息被输入资本主义企业并卖回给我们。作者认为，这种发展预示着一种新的社会秩序正在全球范围内出现，它必须受到挑战。面对已经被容忍的令人震惊的监控程度，他们发出了一个激动人心的呼吁，要求互联网去殖民化，解放我们对连接的渴望。
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but this book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture and translate our lives into data, and then extract information that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us. The authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a new social order emerging globally—and it must be challenged. Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated, they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and emancipate our desire for connection.