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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-01-01
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Series: | Big Data & Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951719897092 |