Episode · EconTalk · 2019-07-29
Russ Roberts & Shoshana Zuboff: books mentioned on EconTalk
Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard University talks about her book Surveillance Capitalism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Zuboff argues that the monetization of search engines and social networks by Google, Facebook, and other large tech firms threatens privacy and democracy.
Russ Roberts discussed The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff is a profound economic and sociological study examining how major technology corporations harvest human experience as behavioral data for profit and control.
Discussed“her latest book in the subject of today's episode is the age of surveillance capitalism the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and when you read some of those patents and I discuss some of them in my book it's very clear you know what the data scientists are are saying what they're celebrating”
“one way to look at at what I what I've done in this book especially in in parts one and two is to reverse engineer the competitive dynamics of these markets”
“I think at the time I was finishing revisions and just in the concluding chapter”
“I have a section in Chapter 11 in my book riot where I asked ask how did they get away with it and I answer it was 16 16 reasons that are analyzed in depth in the book”