Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking over the World: Edited by Jathan SadowskiCambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.

Often, critical scholars of digital technologies are most challenged in convincing I other scholars i of their deleterious impacts on knowledge production and sociopolitical inequalities. Even scholars who are otherwise critical of neoliberal capitalism are sometimes hard pressed to accept that I sm...

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Published in:Economic Geography Vol. 97; no. 1; pp. 115 - 117
Main Author: Burns, Ryan
Format: Book Review
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2021
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