The imperative of transparency as a legitimizing norm for digital surveillance in data capitalism in the movie The Circle
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https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2021.231.05Abstract
We approach digital surveillance imposed with the advancement of data collection and storage systems, particularly linked to big techs and the way they employ datification as the logic of capital accumulation par excellence. To illustrate the discussion, we adopted a critical analysis of The Circle, a 2017 movie. We start from the assumption that the narrative chooses the dissemination of the imperative of transparency as a legitimizing norm for the new form of accumulation in data capitalism, which becomes the discourse of the common good in a harmonious individual society, and in which the worker himself, when internalizing these senses, become a reproducer and propagator of the ideals of the dominant system.
Keywords: Data capitalism. Transparency. Ideology.
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