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Digitaler Kolonialismus: Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen
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München: Beck (2025), 351 pp.
"Das Versprechen der Digitalen Revolution ist die Heilserzählung unsererZeit. Dieses Buch erzählt eine andere Geschichte: Die des digitalen Kolonialismus. Statt physisches Land einzunehmen, erobern die heutigen Kolonialherren den digitalen Raum. Statt nach Gold und Diamanten lassen sie unter mensc
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Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 7 pp.
"We present a framework for viewing artificial intelligence (AI) as planetary assemblages of coloniality that reproduce dependencies in how it co-constitutes and structures a tiered global data economy. We use assemblage thinking to map the coloniality of power to demonstrate how AI stratifies acros
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The perils of ‘tech for good’ lie in its politics of helping
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 5 pp.
"Vexing political questions of power, inequality and coloniality permeate the tech sector and its growing use of global ‘virtual’ assembly lines that see them penetrate even refugee camps in efforts to extract value. As a response, tech companies have been expanding non-commercial activities wit
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A return of dominant paradigm in China: Making Alibaba a development solution for rural China and the globe
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 21 pp.
"In 2011, Alibaba launched the Taobao Villages initiative, which enables rural e-commerce and connects rural sellers with urban buyers, highlighting the role of e-commerce platforms in reducing rural poverty. This approach was later integrated into national rural development policies. As the Digital
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Log out_: A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2023), 313 pp.
Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button
London: University of Westminster Press (2022), 167 pp.
Digitalität tanzen! Über Commoning & Computing
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 129 pp.
"Digitale Technologien sind eine Zumutung! Um dies zu ändern, sollten wir uns nicht von ihnen abwenden, sondern uns eingehender mit ihrer transformatorischen Macht befassen. Shintaro Miyazaki ruft dazu auf, die alternativen Rhythmen des kooperativen, solidarischen Zusammenlebens (Commoning) operabe
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Postdigital: Medienkritik im 21. Jahrhundert
Hamburg: Meiner (2021), 175 pp.
"Die völlige Computerisierung der Lebenswelt entwickelt eine geradezu mahlstromartige Dynamik. Massenhaft sind die Köpfe über die Bildschirme gesenkt und starren auf vereinheitlichten Geräten auf die überall gleichen Apps. Von informationeller Autonomie kann keine Rede sein, dafür umso mehr vo
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Demokratie im digitalen Kapitalismus: Wie Bürger*innen durch Algorithmen ersetzt werden
Bielefeld: transcript;Bielefeld University Press (2021), 189 pp.
"Seitdem das Fernsehen Politik macht, werden Einwände und Kritik gegen Regierende über den Bildschirm kommuniziert – die Bürger*innen sind in passives Zuschauen gedrängt. Der Aufstieg der sozialen Medien dagegen verspricht neue Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe. Doch wird der öffentliche Raum immer
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Exclusión y deriva: Dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad
México, DF: Universidad Iberoamericana;Taurus;Fundación Telefónica (2020), 192 pp.
"[Este libro] presenta ocho capítulos que se muestran críticos frente a las posibilidades y promesas de la cultura digital, denunciando que la red ha reproducido las formas de desigualdad del mundo analógico. Los autores proponen una reflexión crítica frente a ciertos discursos que se presentan
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Ethics and Religion in the Age of Social Media: Digital Proverbs for Responsible Citizens
New York; London: Routledge (2020), xviii, 219 pp.
"Arguing that popular digital platforms promote misguided assumptions about ethics and technology, this book lays out a new perspective on the relation between technological capacities and human virtue. The authors criticize the “digital catechism” of technological idolatry arising from the insu
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
London: Profile Books (2019), viii, 691 pp.
"The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that we
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Ciudadanos reemplazados por algoritmos
Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press;Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (CALAS) (2019), 174 pp.
"Nuestras opiniones y comportamientos, capturados por algoritmos, quedan subordinados a corporaciones globalizadas. El espacio público se vuelve opaco y lejano. La desciudadanización se radicaliza, mientras algunos sectores se reinventan y ganan batallas parciales. Pero los usos neoliberales de la
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The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press (2019), xxiii, 323 pp.
"Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers
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Organization After Social Media
New York: Minor Compositions;Autonomedia (2018), 178 pp.
"What can replace the corporate walled gardens such as Facebook and Twitter? Our answer to this question is a firm and open one: a federation of organized networks, sustainable cells that operate as secret societies. Many have already identified social networks as a conspiratorial neoliberal inventi
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Analog ist das neue Bio: Ein Plädoyer für eine menschliche digitale Welt
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 224 pp.
"Kaum ein Ort der Erde, der nicht digital vermessen oder erfasst ist, kaum ein Lebensbereich ohne digitale Steuerung, Erleichterung und Optimierung. Die Schattenseite der Digitalisierung bestehe, so Andre Wilkens, in ihrem Potenzial zur Erfassung, Kontrolle und Manipulation. Er stellt in diesem Buch
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Inseln der Vernunft im Cyberstrom? Auswege aus der programmierten Gesellschaft
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2006), 207 pp.
Incommunicado Reader
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2005), 192 pp.
"Aiming to bring some of the network-cultural forms of collaboration into ICT debates dominated by standard policy and research procedure, the Incommunicado project does not offer a univocal master-narrative of what’s wrong with the world of ICT, or of how it should be. Members of the Incommunicad
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Por una cultura libre
Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños (2005), 304 pp.
