Provided by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Copenhagen Business School
Major Topics: Captology; Data extraction; Addiction; Attention; Retention
Lectures
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15 ways behavior can change (video cannot be embedded): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd7xx1n3dl8
Core readings
Shoshana Zuboff. 2020 You Are Now Remotely Controlled, The New York Times, available via https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html
Post-Lecture Assignment:
- Please watch Made to Measure, available here (in German & English): https://www.madetomeasure.online/en/ – Importantly: Watch till the end and find out what the team of the documentary can find out about you!
- Read the following article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/opinion/google-ads.html
- Write up one response (maximum 500-700 words) drawing on your readings for this course (including this lecture reading) focusing on one of these questions:
– Describe: What dilemmas/problems are described in the film?
– Compare: Compare the message of the documentary and of the newspaper article. Which view do you find more convincing and why?
– Find: Who are stakeholders involved in the theme of the movie and/or the stakeholders of the documentary.
Alternatively:
- Please watch the Social Dilemma on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224.
- Then read this review and these tweets by
– Mark Díaz (Google) https://twitter.com/blahtino/status/1305699736352182272
– Evan Greer (deputy director of Fight for the Future) https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1306341560548757505
– Pranav Malhotra (PhD student, University of Washington) https://twitter.com/Pranavmalhotra8/status/1305227575434776577 - Write up one response (maximum 500 words) drawing on your readings for this course (including today’s) focusing on one of these questions:
– Describe the main theme of Social Dilemma: What dilemma is described in the film?
– Compare: The solutions offered in the film and the solutions offered in the critical responses.
– Find: Who are stakeholders of the movie and/or the stakeholders of the critique of the movie.
Indicate in your response whether you agree more with the film or the critique against the film, or whether you find yourself appreciating both sides.
Additional material
Shoshana Zuboff. 2019 “Make them dance”. In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Nick Seaver. 2019. Captivating algorithms: Recommender systems as traps. Journal of Material Culture 24(4): 421–436.