Adolescent development now occurs inside a commercially engineered behavior-modification regime

Evidence

But this time it is not a question of simply packing their lunch and crossing our fingers as they head into the school-day maze of adolescent cliques, or sending them off to college knowing that they may stumble or fall but eventually find their passions and their people as they find themselves. This time, we have sent them into the raw heart of a rogue capitalism that amassed its fortune and power through behavioral dispossession parlayed into behavior modification in the service of others’ guaranteed outcomes. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1482

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the broader surveillance-capitalism thesis of behavioral surplus and behavior modification established earlier in the book. — connects to: The surveillance horizon extends to children’s toys that harvest underage behavioral surplus — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 827; Behavior-change techniques have migrated from face-to-face to automated digital tools at scale — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2444; Platforms’ initial promise of freedom masks instrumentarian behavioral engineering — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1492 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Platforms’ initial promise of freedom masks instrumentarian behavioral engineering #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1492
• Behavior-change techniques have migrated from face-to-face to automated digital tools at scale #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2444
• Facebook’s adolescent-designed practices were institutionalized for the whole population #exemplifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1423