By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Like George Orwell’s portrayal of state or party surveillance (Big Brother is Watching You), Shoshana Zuboff, as you see above, has got a ground breaking portrayal of the surveillance capitalist practices of corporations such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Shoshana, a radical professor retired from [...]
By Ashmita Chowdhury, Editor-in-Chief The Space Economy, as the name aptly suggests, is the commercial use of space. As elaborated by OECD, it consists of the full range of activities and the use of resources that create value and benefits to human beings in the course of exploring, researching, understanding, managing, and utilising space. And [...]
by Medha Arora, Deputy Editor A rather recent and highly important discourse regarding social media has been issues of privacy, surveillance and targeted advertising. This has often led to the identification of big business interests who pervade such spaces, and commodify users’ data. The capitalist nature of technology and social media isn’t a new area [...]
By Dipanshu Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Shreyanka Pal, Miranda House If you’ve spent quarantine trying to finish as many Coursera courses possible to display on your LinkedIn, or if you’ve missed your statistics class in hopes to catch up via a Youtube tutorial, you’ve fallen prey to the edtech industry. But, why [...]
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