Control and surveillance in digital capitalism: an analysis of blockchain technologies and their business implementation
Pablo Emanuel Romero Almada,
Elizardo Scarpati Costa
Abstract:The article discusses how the new information and communication technologies (NICTs) interrelate with the control and surveillance of systems through the case study of blockchain technologies. Initially, considering the debates in the sociology of work and the resources for a qualitative methodology, we analyze how blockchain technologies arise due to the economic crisis and the need for regulation of the post-2008 crisis markets. In the first part, we look at the surveillance and market control dimensions tha… Show more
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