In a nutshell: Shoshana Zuboff: Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy

The collection and analysis of data is changing the way economies operate. Are these changes so fundamental that they can be said to have led to the emergence of a new form of capitalism - surveillance capitalism? If people’s behaviour is made increasingly transparent, do we become a society in which trust is no longer necessary? Are individuals a mere appendage to the digital machine, objects of new mechanisms which reward and punish according to the determinations of private capital? How is social cohesion affected when people become dispensable as a labour force, while their data continues to provide function as a source of value in lucrative new markets that trade in predictions of human behaviour? How should we understand the new quality of power that arises from these unprecedented conditions? What kind of society does it aim to create? And what ramifications will these developments have for the principles of liberal democracy? Will privacy law and anti-trust law be enough? How can we tame what we do not yet understand?
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[@dipenlakhani6894]

At no other time in history, have the wealthiest private corporations, had at their disposal, a pervasive global architecture of ubiquitous computation. Able to amass unparalleled concentrations of information about individuals, groups & populations. Sufficient to mobilise the pivot from the monitoring to the actuation of behaviour, remotely & at scale. This my friends is unprecedented.

[@mdrnprimitve-wesupportsmal6507]

This is a most important subject. I've listened to many voices on this, in my view Shoshana is the best at outlling the meta story. The idea that she puts forward that the elities throughout history have always had to get the workers/surfs etc have always had to buy into what the elities wanted, there was always a strong social contract, hard won, much needed. Now they dont need any permission at all, they can just take it and they do.... if there Is anything thats more worrying than that I'd like to know it, Oh and by the way States. `Corporations, factions, have all been using and honing this technology for approaching a decade. Well done for putting all this together

[@TheMedleyboys]

I cannot believe that I was the 713 viewer of this enlightening speaker giving insight to this topic , What a privilege to listen to and should be addressed to all concerned , It’s been well over a month since released on KZbin If this doesn’t hit 100M views by the end of this year we all must have our eyes closed , Such intelligence like this doesn’t come very often , especially during this pandemic we all are experiencing, You rock 👍

[@demonview6075]

.. Or KZbin just don't recommend videos like this to anyone

[@ulpana]

Even this small audience via the Alexander von Humboldt Institut for internet and society is growing faster than interest in Zuboff's own homelands of the polarized if not atomized United States of Amnesia (kudos to Gore Vidal for such lively reminders during his lifetime of appearances and very currently relevant books and essays. Our penchant for being a polis prone to a mass media system designed not only as Pay2Play and in service to PRIVATE INTERESTS rather than privileging any perceived PUBLIC INTEREST, but we are as a body politic physically prone to the same sort of self-interested Oligarchs as we now point our fingers and claim are all Russian with their wealth management portfolios attended to in London. Wall Street has called the FINANCIALIZATION tune not only for the U.S. but much of what we refer to as the Western World, parallel to London's servicing of their regional Asian captive markets held by despots and Oiligarchies. The Pandemic has shown U.S. and the world how weak we really are despite our ever-growing and massive NATIONAL SECURITY (dba Big Daddy Warbucks) budget that is far from transparent or remotely accountable. If Public Health is not a crucial part of NATIONAL SECURITY why then we the U.S. of Amnesia are indeed the big bullies of the global food chain. The projection of power via our Big Daddy Warbucks's oligarchs at Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and Generals in General the junior partners to Neo Tech Feudal lords of HI FInance and HI Tech, not to mention the medicating flows from Big Pharma's legal markets and those Weapons of Mass Distraction that lull U.S. from our screens and ear buds whether we are on our marketed or smuggled meds or not. people.defensenews.com/top-100/ breakingdefense.com/2022/03/us-expands-global-arms-export-gap-over-no-2-seller-russia-report/ The growth of interest from the universities on down through the chains of their nation-state owned PUBLIC INTEREST and EDUCATION broadcasting systems, our main global economic competitors are treating with vast curiosity and attentive respect Prof Zuboff's abundance of unique and insightful research into the issues creating the greatest institutional discomfort and social instability as we surrender more and more to Artificial Intelligence and a Pay2Play Security State in the service of corporations with their hierarchies of UNACCOUNTABLE OLIGARCHS (often referred to by global academics and scribes like Anand Girardharadas and Saskia Sassen as Neo Feudal Lords) rather than any PUBLIC INTEREST focused state institutions. The fact that Prof Zuboff only published The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2018) in hardback after her retirement from her prestigious if rarely News Media sourced position at Harvard Business School alerts attentive news media that she herself didn't expect her work to get even a chance at building a wider audience without her being available for the non-stop touring and globe-trotting to welcoming national Public Interest broadcast outlets often posted here to U. of Tube. In addition to the mainstream media attention and translation that Zuboff's work is getting even throughout Pandemic Lockdowns and Quarantine in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Denmark, Benelux and Baltic states, France, Spain, Portugal and with slightly larger and growing audiences for Prof Zuboff's book in translation and her virtual appearances especially in Scandinavia and Poland, with very large growth of interest among Slavic nation-states just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the many appearances posted to the corporate platforms like U. of Tube (part of the Google dba Alphabet, Inc and Vimeo) we actually have a better and deeper perspective now on the bedrock issues that have concerned this engaged Social Psychologist at this crucial moment when global elites are beginning to discuss legislation to break up some of the Global Feudal Monopolies due to grass roots pressure and a wider base of Oligarchs who want cuts of the Global Pie too! See this early U.S. based anomalous Multi-Media Journalistic co-sponsored event that featured both Shoshana Zuboff and journalist turned academic conceptual interdisciplinary heavyweight Canadian Naomi Klein just before Pandemic shut the world of personal appearances down and this virtual PUBLIC FORUM or TOWN HALL MEETING actually arrived ahead of the curve of the move to on-line remote learning for our kids with a sample of such for U.S. so-called adults: www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/01/watch-naomi-klein-and-shoshana-zuboff-discuss-mounting-dangers-surveillance Both the non-profit Common Dreams news\views Public Affairs media site and publication and the journalistic organ of HI TECH oligarch Pierre Omidyar who has used his billions of dollars in personal income owns The Intercept, yet teamed up for this dynamic discussion of Zuboff kicking off her World Tour of Global Town Hall meetings in many tongues using her new book and today's most disturbing headline stories from the Neo-Liberal\Neo-Conservative Continuity of PRIVATIZED EXPANDING FRONTIERS OF NATIONAL SECURITY STATES (including Washington DC's Deep State or Shadow Government with its NSA SURVEILLANCE Scandals and massive pipelines of surveilled publics subject to data mining by the state and its private contractors) as catalysts for the discussions we NEED TO BE HAVING B4 ALL GAB WON'T BE POSSIBLE UNDER SPREADING FASCIST INROADS. Some of these fascist and authoritarian inroads into rule via Cults of Personality and their sheeple's popular vote. Some of these authoritarian CULT OF PERSONALITY mis-leaders coming to power via the very new paradigm and Political Economy bid-net model of SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM (search under Cambridge Analytica and the manipulation of laissez faire global media platform FACEBOOK dba META that pioneers Shoshana Zuboff and Naomi Klein have helped all of us, not just U.S. to absorb, conceptually perceive the conflict between unregulated bid-net models and conflicts of interest Political Economy of Oligarchs with some sentient stirrings in long forestalled response to such surrender of hard-won social evolutionary gains now as banal as critical masses of Institutional Corruption. Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee

[@TheMedleyboys]

@@demonview6075 true , it may go against the grain regarding this platform current data regulation

[@jamesd6996]

It's a small audience because KZbin belongs to Google, they sure don't want you to know anything about this lecture or Shoshana Zuboff.

[@olteanugeorge8810]

It will be such a great thing if we can invite Mrs.Zuboff to Romania.

[@zahid1909]

She gave me a shivering realization that we are not wearing any clothes. I guess this intense feeling may have some parallel to the feelings of Adam when he tasted the fruit of knowledge for the first time. Zuboff is just an unparallel orator of substance.

[@emanym]

Viva nudism 🎉

[@1silvervespa]

I AM NOT A NUMBER .... YEAH YOU ARE !

[@HectorSousa]

Perfect!

[@muzzybeat]

Shoshana Zuboff:for president.

[@DitDitDitDahDahDahDitDitDit]

There is an existing legal precedent for controlling access to available medical data for medical research purposes in healthcare called “informed consent.” Perhaps that construct may help explicate the need for similar legal constraints on what is done with available data in the economic sphere. Behavioral manipulation of people for profit, in whatever manner this is done, is an ugly prospect. Our laws derive from our ethics, our laws are not the basis for our ethics, e.g., lawful isn’t always ethical. [Lawful is a necessary but insufficient condition.] Actions predicated on assertions like, “Greed is good,” for instance, may be lawful, but, as ethics extends beyond mere self-interest, they are insufficient to guarantee that such actions will be ethical. Society needs ethics more than laws.

[@DANCEGARAGEPUNK]

The Democratic Capitalism we had before Neoliberalism arrived in the 1980s & started the swing to increasing Corporate Control, would be a step in the right direction ! ! : )

[@handlequeue]

It's a paradox we have to come here to the core of surveillance democracy to see this video.

[@arthurdick9553]

Interesting. But a flawed solution. So called democracy is what has got us into this situation. Our only hope is direct politics. Governments using multi referendum , legally binding, to steer policy and laws.,

[@spiritofgoldfish]

"The government" = "The corporations". I don't see democracy having a role in this.

[@nativegypsy7953]

What better way to test their facial recognition sftwr than to force the majority of the population to wear masks. Then when the masks come off, they see how many matches they actually get.

[@Elder_Tree]

Palestine is suffering

[@muskduh]

totalitarian surveillance sucks but so does socialist democracy. America is a constitutional republic.

[@muskduh]

@Damir4451 the problem with democracy is that is is entirely unnatural for a majority to rule. It ignores the very minority rights it claims to protect!

[@muskduh]

@Damir4451 democracy died in Greece 3000 years ago.

[@DANCEGARAGEPUNK]

The Democratic Capitalism we had before Neoliberalism arrived in the 1980s & started the swing to increasing Corporate Control would be a step in the right direction ! ! : )

[@PHussey]

Thank You, Shoshana.