Resisting Big Tech : The Personalized is Political

Name: Resisting Big Tech : The Personalized is Political
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Resisting Big TechThe Personalized is Political\nAuthor(s): Niels Niessen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350504097, 978-1350504097\nSynopsis\nHow does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial intelligence prompt how we think? Engaging these and similar questions, this open access book critiques Big Techs colonization of everyday life. \n\n Although #MeToo and Black Lives Matter would not have happened the way they did without so-called social media, these platforms are not designed for emancipation but to maximize data extraction. Inspired by the feminist rallying cry that the personal is political, Resisting Big Tech calls for a collective consciousness of how Big Techs increasingly personalized streams colonize our associations (how we wander in our bodyminds and how we cohere as groups). Articulating a degrowth perspective .