{"product_id":"the-spirit-of-digital-capitalism-hardback-9781509553952","title":"The Spirit of Digital Capitalism (Hardback) 9781509553952","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Spirit of Digital Capitalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJenny Huberman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509553952, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.431 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With energetic purpose and grounded arguments, Huberman lays out the ideological spirit animating digital capitalism. This book shows how the avatars of digital capitalism ‒ through the use (and abuse) of concepts like convenience ‒ seek to convince us to embrace this new regime.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJathan Sadowski, \u003ci\u003eMonash University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“If there is one book you plan to read or assign this year to get a handle on why today’s digital world feels inescapable, it should be this. Huberman offers readers crisp, elegant prose dissecting contemporary cases of the material consequences that befall us all when a few elites are gripped by an ideology of digital progress. This is at once a synthetic treatise on why we are where we are and a roadmap for pushing against the soullessness of digital economies.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Gray, \u003ci\u003eMicrosoft Research and Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital technologies are now central to the machinations of capitalism. How are they giving rise to new forms of capital accumulation and domination? And in what terms are these changes being promoted and justified by a new and incredibly powerful elite?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book takes on such questions. Beyond demonstrating how digital technologies make new forms of capital accumulation possible, Huberman interrogates the ideological transformations that have accompanied the emergence of digital capitalism. She examines how business gurus, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists make claims about how digital technologies contribute to the common good, foster collaboration and connectivity, and render life more convenient, even if this convenience comes at the expense of values such as privacy and liberty. Ultimately, Huberman argues that the spirit of digital capitalism is Janus-faced and reveals deeper cultural contradictions at the heart of contemporary American society: promising, in the same moment, to liberate us and surveil us, enrich us, and yet render our lives more economically precarious.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSmart and thought-provoking, this book offers new perspectives that will speak to anyone interested in the contours of contemporary capitalism, particularly students and scholars of economic anthropology and sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDetailed Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: An Occupational Hazard\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Digital Age and the Spirits of Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Spirit of Competition: Crowdsourcing through Incentive Competitions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: The Spirit of Collaboration: Crowdsourcing through Communities\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Spirit of the Game: \u003cbr\u003e Smartphone Apps and the Digital Extraction of Surplus Value\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: In the Spirit of Convenience: \u003cbr\u003e Amazon Go and Surveillance Capitalism \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: The Spirit of the Gift: The Work of Techno-philanthropy\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Spirit and Contradictions of Digital Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Endnotes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441812238616,"sku":"9781509553952","price":45.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509553952.jpg?v=1785026639","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-spirit-of-digital-capitalism-hardback-9781509553952","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}