A Maussian bargain: Accumulation by gift in the digital economy

The harvesting of data about people, organizations, and things and their transformation into a form of capital is often described as a process of “accumulation by dispossession,” a pervasive loss of rights buttressed by predatory practices and legal violence. Yet this argument does not square well w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marion Fourcade, Daniel N Kluttz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951719897092