Big other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization
Skip to content PDF Page 8 / 15 fullscreen remove_circle_outline add_circle_outline rotate_right search group_add more_horiz get_app PDF info list link DETAILS RELATIONS Journal of Information Technology Volume 30, Issue 1 Mar 2015 ARTICLE Big other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization View article page Shoshana Zuboff format_quote CITE © 2015 Association for Information Technology Trust https://doi-org.ezproxy.universitetetioslo.no/10.1057/jit.2015.5 open_in_new Publisher SAGE Publications ISSN 0268-3962 eISSN 1466-4437 Online March 1, 2015 Issue published March 2015 Pages 75 - 89 Abstract This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’ The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the primary lens for this analysis as they are rendered in two recent articles authored by Google Chief Economist