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Why Advertising Shapes the Tech Economy w/ Daniel Joseph

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Digital Labor Thesis

Sally Kohn: We have a tendency to look at the political economy of the internet or tech companies through a number of different approaches. The dominant ones that you talk about are an approach of digital labor where we're looking at people on social media platforms and whatnot is performing free labor for these companies surveillance capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff's work. She says even though surveillance capitalism is about the production of data it doesn't talk about well for whom and to what purposeDigital labor will often talk about theProduction of content but again how do the end of the day platform social media platforms actually turn the production of that content into their business like Facebook is an advertising company they make most of

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