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Capitalist Realism — Mark Fisher (2009) Ask students to read for more than a couple of sentences and many — and these are A-level students mind you — will protest that they can’t do it. The most frequent complaint teachers hear is that it’s boring. It is not so much the content of the written material that is at issue here; it is the act of reading itself that is deemed to be ‘boring’. What we…

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Webveillance is an umbrella term for online watching and includes multiple types of veillance, such as infoveillance, cyberveillance, dataveillance, surveillance, coveillance, and sousveillance.(More…)

Rymarczuk ? “Users of social media platforms constantly have each other under coveillance ? This process of networked coveillance is intrinsic to the way social media…

Book Review for Mark Andrejevic’s Infoglut: How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know

By Colin Ford

To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation.

In an age where government and corporate entities routinely gather, compile, and store online users’ information in gigantic databases, Mark Andrejevic’s Infoglut: How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know (2013) provides an excellent overview of…