Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data Fuchs, Christian editor. Chandler, David editor. text Electronic books. enk 2019 monographic eng 1 online resource (249 p.) This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital' promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claimsâ€"in theory and via dialogueâ€"and of the digital's impact on society, the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society. Christian Fuchs, David Chandler. Access copy available to the general public. Unrestricted star Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory Political Science / History & Theory Social Science / Sociology Political science 9781912656202 https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/f761c869-be46-4c0d-98fb-f03bb0aa24be https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/f761c869-be46-4c0d-98fb-f03bb0aa24be Access copy available to the general public. ScCtBLL 210129 20210303105236.0 102534