Facebook confessions: Corporate abdication and Silicon Valley dystopianism

Karppi, Tero; Nieborg, David B.

doi:10.1177/1461444820933549

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“…Secondly, it is difficult to keep directors and lead designers anonymous: they are by definition famed game developers at the top of their career, directing hundreds of workers over multiple years. As such, their names occur here by their quotes, in the same vein as, for example, Karppi and Nieborg’s study of ex-Facebook employees (2020); just as developers’ names are credited at the end of the games they worked on; and as they appear in the table of participants below (Table 1).…”

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Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience

Wildt

Aupers

2021

Journal of Consumer Culture

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Videogame companies are selling religion to an overwhelmingly secular demographic. Ubisoft, the biggest company in the world’s biggest cultural industry, created a best-selling franchise about a conflict over Biblical artefacts between Muslim Assassins and Christian Templars. Who decides to put religion into those games? How? And why? To find out, we interviewed 22 developers on the Assassin’s Creed franchise, including directors and writers. Based on those, we show that the “who” of Ubisoft is not a person but an industry: a de-personalized and codified process. How? Marketing, editorial and production teams curb creative teams into reproducing a formula: a depoliticized, universalized, and science-fictionalized “marketable religion.” Why? Because this marketable form of religious heritage can be consumed by everyone—regardless of cultural background or conviction. As such, this paper adds an empirically grounded perspective on the “who,” “why,” and “how” of cultural industries’ successful commodification of religious and cultural heritage.

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Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience

Wildt

Aupers

2021

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…Augustine and Xavier (2021) Jeff Seibert, the former executive of Twitter (SDD), confess that I want you people to know that everything you do over on these platforms is being observed, tracked, and measured accurately; how much you stopover and for how many seconds you look at it, they know when users feel loneliness and disheartened. Artificial Intelligence the Machine Learning Karppi and Nieborg (2020), according to Justin Rosenstein, houses like Google have massive computers and are deeply interconnected, excessively running complex databases and transferring information back and forth every time. O'neil (2016) enlightened that algorithms are opinions driven in code optimized, Set given goal to the computer about the required result, and the computer learns itself how to get things done.…”

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“…Karppi, T. and D. B. Nieborg (2020). "Facebook confessions: Corporate abdication and Silicon Valley dystopianism."…”

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Weaponising Social Media, Mental Health and Surveillance Capitalism Another Side of the Coin

Chaudhary

Ayub

Riaz

et al. 2022

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Individuals, executives lived experiences, and subjective information about every single action (ethical concern) you take is cautiously monetized and corroborated; false conspiracy theories and fake news, like various coronavirus thoughts, blow six times faster over social media is one of the practical case points as weaponizing social media and polarization, propaganda. These cosmetic modifications are tremendously popular among teenagers; plastic practitioners have underlined a new and unique syndrome for it. Persuasive Technology means everything we know about the psychology of what persuades people and builds that into a technological business attention extraction model to manipulate human behaviour for growth hacking. The term surveillance capitalism, explored by Twitter executives, says people must know everything online is being observed, pursued, and calculated. The former Twitter executive worked as senior vice president of engineering Tim Kendall (2021); members left Google in June (2017) due to ethical concerns. Positively, these sites have brought back together lost family members. They have sought out organ givers and saved lives. An expressive, systemic variation up-to-the-minute around the globe because of these platforms, but there is another side to see. This enquiry sheds light on the linkage between weaponizing social media, mental health and surveillance.

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“…In post-digital capitalism, which is my overarching fond here, companies and governments continue to promote connectivity as the key to a happy working life (Fast, 2018). Yet, while they do so, a growing number of agents-ranging from "Silicon Valley dystopians" (Karppi and Nieborg, 2020) to "digital detox coaches" argue that we should use digital technologies less, or at least more "mindfully" (Baym et al, 2020). As others have also explained, "post-digital" does not signify the end of digital hegemony (Berry, 2014), but rather that our "fascination with these systems and gadgets has become historical" (Cramer, 2015: 12).…”

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The disconnection turn: Three facets of disconnective work in post-digital capitalism

Fast

2021

Convergence

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In post-digital capitalism, digital disconnection is not merely a “luxury” but also an obligation. Aiming to re-contextualize digital disconnection outside of digital detox resorts, social media, and elitist activism, this article asks how the ongoing disconnection turn affects how we (think about) work. With cues taken from digital disconnection studies and (digital) work/labour research, I inquire three facets of disconnective work. I elaborate, firstly, what disconnection might mean for work, as I scrutinize ideals pertaining to “deep” and “slow” work. Secondly, I unveil how disconnection may materialize at work, as I inspect “the post-digital workplace” and “disconnective technologies of work.” Thirdly, using “The Post-Digital Housewife” as a rhetorical figure for grasping the daily, typically unpaid, work that the disconnection turn makes acute, I recognize disconnection as work. The article concludes by presenting four dialectics of disconnective work, which serve to remind us of the paradoxical role of disconnection in processes of empowerment and exploitation.

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Facebook confessions: Corporate abdication and Silicon Valley dystopianism

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience

Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience

Weaponising Social Media, Mental Health and Surveillance Capitalism Another Side of the Coin

The disconnection turn: Three facets of disconnective work in post-digital capitalism

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