The Internet of Things Presents: A Case Study on Ensuring Legitimacy for Building Data Supply Routes in Surveillance Capitalism.
Surveillance capitalists dispossess data on a massive scale to extract surplus value. While pioneers such as Google entered uncharted territory when they established their data supply routes, latecomers to surveillance capitalism, among them many born-analog firms, face the challenge of building suc...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Communication (19328036) Vol. 19; pp. 846 - 865 |
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University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press
2025
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