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As of right now the article says:
Surveillance capitalism is a term coined by academic Shoshana Zuboff...
But can it actually be said that she "coined" the term? According to Google Trends the term has been used since at least 2006 and I found this source from 2001 for instance which used the term as well, albeit with it referring to the military-intelligence-surveillance-industrial-complex:
Paid for with public “contract” resources, the observation technology is used to advance global surveillance, the long term consequences of which include an impact on Canadian sovereignty and the continued growth of “surveillance capitalism” or the “surveillance state”, depending on where emphasis is placed.
I'm not sure what the first usage of the term in at least roughly the way Zuboff means it was and whether her first using the term in that sense warrant the word "coined" here.
For instance the article could say:
Surveillance capitalism is a term used and popularized by academic Shoshana Zuboff...
or
Surveillance capitalism is a concept introduced by academic Shoshana Zuboff...
etc.
What would you suggest?
-- Fixuture ( talk) 12:52, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Please look at Alternative data. Is that the same thing, from a different ideological viewpoint? Both articles are orphans. Merge? This content seems useful but misplaced. Merging into Big data would make sense, but that article is already too crowded. This belongs somewhere in the finance space, but where? John Nagle ( talk) 19:49, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
Surveillance capitalism is a novel market form and a specific logic of capitalist accumulation that was popularised in a 2014 essay by business theorist and social scientist Shoshana Zuboff. She characterized it as a "radically disembedded and extractive variant of information capitalism" based on the commodification of "reality" and its transformation into behavioral data for analysis and sales.
-- 94.142.77.80 ( talk) 05:09, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Added a section around COVID-19 and how there has been a new avenue of surveillance capitalism surfacing with the electronic tracking for public health entities and the development of mobile apps and potential sharing and gathering of data for contact tracing. There is probably more to be added to this, too. Submitting as a part of a COML course. Kheine ( talk) 23:35, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
I find the term "surveillance capitalism" appropriate and current. As for the article itself, I also find the discussion about the origins of this term a distraction.
It is stated that
it will be impossible to end surveillance capitalism in the current digital and political sphere due to the power that large technology companies have politically and economically.
and goes on to argue that China should be most feared in its use of surveillance.
These are the same arguments of deflection used by Facebook, Google and the like to stop Governments in the USA and elsewhere enacting laws to regulate the collection of consumer data. [1]
Also missing is reference to the California Consumer Privacy Laws, recently enacted in the home of Google and Facebook. [2]
I also find this article lacking points of reference such as the size and growth of leading exponents of surveillance capitalism such as financial information at: [3] [4]
Unlike 1st person capitalism, the process of surveillance capitalism is opaque to the average user. This article does not address this and in my opinion does little to inform an average user about how their day to day activities are monitored, recorded, processed and fed back to them in a positive feedback loop, fine tuned by artificial intelligence. Hardware, software and infrastructure - where are these details?
To remove any conflict of interest, data supplied by exponents of this form of capitalism should not be used in this article. Goinggoingstillhere ( talk) 23:06, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
References
==Wiki Education assignment: Writing 2 - Digital Futures==
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The sentence "Economic pressures of capitalism are driving the intensification of connection and monitoring online with spaces of social life becoming open to saturation by corporate actors, directed at the making of profit and/or the regulation of action." doesn't come across as correct English. Is that sentence a quote? If yes, please add quotation marks. If it's not a quote, please rewrite it in syntactically correct English. For instance, if it doesn't alter the meaning of the statement, a comma could be added before "with...". But then, what would "intensification of connection and monitoring online" be supposed to mean? It doesn't sound English to me. If however that comma did alter the meaning of the text, what would be the correct syntactical interpretation of that sentence? Maybe make two simpler sentences from this longer unintelligible one.
Secondly, the sentence could also be simplified. E.g., why not replace "driving the intensification" by "intensifying"? Why not replace "becoming open to saturation" to "becoming saturated"? Sakuragaoka2001 ( talk) 20:02, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 03:56, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
As of right now the article says:
Surveillance capitalism is a term coined by academic Shoshana Zuboff...
But can it actually be said that she "coined" the term? According to Google Trends the term has been used since at least 2006 and I found this source from 2001 for instance which used the term as well, albeit with it referring to the military-intelligence-surveillance-industrial-complex:
Paid for with public “contract” resources, the observation technology is used to advance global surveillance, the long term consequences of which include an impact on Canadian sovereignty and the continued growth of “surveillance capitalism” or the “surveillance state”, depending on where emphasis is placed.
I'm not sure what the first usage of the term in at least roughly the way Zuboff means it was and whether her first using the term in that sense warrant the word "coined" here.
For instance the article could say:
Surveillance capitalism is a term used and popularized by academic Shoshana Zuboff...
or
Surveillance capitalism is a concept introduced by academic Shoshana Zuboff...
etc.
What would you suggest?
-- Fixuture ( talk) 12:52, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Please look at Alternative data. Is that the same thing, from a different ideological viewpoint? Both articles are orphans. Merge? This content seems useful but misplaced. Merging into Big data would make sense, but that article is already too crowded. This belongs somewhere in the finance space, but where? John Nagle ( talk) 19:49, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
Surveillance capitalism is a novel market form and a specific logic of capitalist accumulation that was popularised in a 2014 essay by business theorist and social scientist Shoshana Zuboff. She characterized it as a "radically disembedded and extractive variant of information capitalism" based on the commodification of "reality" and its transformation into behavioral data for analysis and sales.
-- 94.142.77.80 ( talk) 05:09, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Added a section around COVID-19 and how there has been a new avenue of surveillance capitalism surfacing with the electronic tracking for public health entities and the development of mobile apps and potential sharing and gathering of data for contact tracing. There is probably more to be added to this, too. Submitting as a part of a COML course. Kheine ( talk) 23:35, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
I find the term "surveillance capitalism" appropriate and current. As for the article itself, I also find the discussion about the origins of this term a distraction.
It is stated that
it will be impossible to end surveillance capitalism in the current digital and political sphere due to the power that large technology companies have politically and economically.
and goes on to argue that China should be most feared in its use of surveillance.
These are the same arguments of deflection used by Facebook, Google and the like to stop Governments in the USA and elsewhere enacting laws to regulate the collection of consumer data. [1]
Also missing is reference to the California Consumer Privacy Laws, recently enacted in the home of Google and Facebook. [2]
I also find this article lacking points of reference such as the size and growth of leading exponents of surveillance capitalism such as financial information at: [3] [4]
Unlike 1st person capitalism, the process of surveillance capitalism is opaque to the average user. This article does not address this and in my opinion does little to inform an average user about how their day to day activities are monitored, recorded, processed and fed back to them in a positive feedback loop, fine tuned by artificial intelligence. Hardware, software and infrastructure - where are these details?
To remove any conflict of interest, data supplied by exponents of this form of capitalism should not be used in this article. Goinggoingstillhere ( talk) 23:06, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
References
==Wiki Education assignment: Writing 2 - Digital Futures==
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 February 2022 and 27 May 2022. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Zmuhl (
article contribs).
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2022 and 16 October 2022. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
LeanneGagnon (
article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by LeanneGagnon ( talk) 00:57, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2023 and 12 March 2023. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Jcklimper (
article contribs). Peer reviewers:
Waterbottle75,
Smoove42.
— Assignment last updated by Theworldsally ( talk) 15:49, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
The sentence "Economic pressures of capitalism are driving the intensification of connection and monitoring online with spaces of social life becoming open to saturation by corporate actors, directed at the making of profit and/or the regulation of action." doesn't come across as correct English. Is that sentence a quote? If yes, please add quotation marks. If it's not a quote, please rewrite it in syntactically correct English. For instance, if it doesn't alter the meaning of the statement, a comma could be added before "with...". But then, what would "intensification of connection and monitoring online" be supposed to mean? It doesn't sound English to me. If however that comma did alter the meaning of the text, what would be the correct syntactical interpretation of that sentence? Maybe make two simpler sentences from this longer unintelligible one.
Secondly, the sentence could also be simplified. E.g., why not replace "driving the intensification" by "intensifying"? Why not replace "becoming open to saturation" to "becoming saturated"? Sakuragaoka2001 ( talk) 20:02, 16 December 2023 (UTC)