Nick Couldry

Your life online is their product In the past colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources exploitative labour and private property from countries around the world It promised to modernise and civilise but actually sought to control It stole from native populations and made them sign contracts they didn t understand It took resources just because they were there Colonialism has not disappeared it has taken on a new form In the new world order data is the new oil Big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources our data exploiting our labour and connections and repackaging our information to control our views track our movements record our conversations and discriminate against us Every time we unthinkingly click Accept on Terms and Conditions we allow our most personal information to kept indefinitely repackaged by big Tech companies to control and exploit us for their own profit In this searing cutting edge guide two leading global researchers and founders of the concept of data colonialism reveal how history can help us both to understand the emerging future and to fight back

Your life online is their product In the past colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources exploitative labour and private property from countries around the world It promised to modernise and civilise but actually sought to control It stole from native populations and made them sign contracts they didn t understand It took resources just because they were there Colonialism has not disappeared it has taken on a new form In the new world order data is the new oil Big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources our data exploiting our labour and connections and repackaging our information to control our views track our movements record our conversations and discriminate against us Every time we unthinkingly click Accept on Terms and Conditions we allow our most personal information to kept indefinitely repackaged by big Tech companies to control and exploit us for their own profit In this searing cutting edge guide two leading global researchers and founders of the concept of data colonialism reveal how history can help us both to understand the emerging future and to fight back

Des dels informatius de televisió fins a les xarxes socials, els mitjans tenen un paper essencial en la configuració del món com el coneixem. Amb el transvasament de les vides de les persones al món dinternet, els mitjans shan tornat un element crucial en gairebe tots els aspectes de la vida humana.Avui sesta construint un nou ordre social a traves de la nostra relacio amb els mitjans; quin poder confereix aixo als governs i les grans empreses? Nick Couldry desgrana la rellevancia de cinc rols essencials que exerceixen els mitjans: comunicar, representar, imaginar, compartir i governar. Ens demostra que la comprensio daquestes dinamiques es una habilitat vital que tots necessitem tenir en lera digital, ara que el desti dels nostres mons politics i els nostres ecosistemes socials poden dependre de com ens comuniquem.Pocs han escrit amb tanta lucidesa i sagacitat sobre la importancia dels mitjans. Couldry ofereix un full de ruta per entendre els mitjans i la societat del segle XXI. Lisa Parks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Partiendo de la comprensión de los medios de comunicación como «un conjunto complejo -y a menudo en conflicto- de instituciones, técnicas y mecanismos que sirven para conectar y representar a seres h

Partiendo del concepto de "colonización", los autores sientan las bases para una novedosa analogía entre el colonialismo histórico, que permitió el ascenso del capitalismo industrial, y el colonialismo actual basado en el capitalismo de datos. Asi exploran como los sistemas tecnologicos extraen datos de cada una de nuestras interacciones y observan la captura y el control de la vida para obtener beneficios. Este libro empuja hacia la comprension de la etapa actual del capitalismo, en la cual el insumo definitivo es la informacion mas cruda de la vida humana.