Surveillance Capitalism - Perspectives and Responsibilities for Organizational Research

Описание: Speakers:
Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard)
Michael Power (LSE)
Mikkel Flyverbom (Copenhagen)

Surveillance capitalism is all around us. We live in an era in which all human experience, whether classed as leisure or work, is considered as free raw material for behavioural modification and profit. The technology corporations driving the institutionalization of this economic logic (Google/Alphabet, Facebook/Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon) now have their tentacles in every aspect of society, including healthcare systems and primary school education. Previously, it was felt that we lacked the concepts and theories to make sense of this complex phenomenon and ask the right questions. In this Organization Theory Webinar, the leading intellectual voices on the subject offer powerful suggestions for how we should conceptually see the bigger phenomenon of surveillance capitalism, what questions we should be pursuing as organizational researchers and what overall our stance should be as social scientists at this critical moment.

Recommended readings:
Zuboff, S. (2022). Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Death Match of Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in Our Information Civilization. Organization Theory, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2631787722112...
Power, M. (2022). Theorizing the Economy of Traces: From Audit Society to Surveillance Capitalism. Organization Theory, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2631787721105...
Flyverbom, M. (2022). Overlit: Digital Architectures of Visibility. Organization Theory, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2631787722109...