Corporations treat streamed social data as a management surface

Evidence

Continuously caching the social enables corporations and all forms of authority to gain the sense that the social world, or at least selected slices of it, can be continuously streamed just for them—not for their entertainment but to enable that world’s modulation or management in their interests. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 419

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sharing’s semantic unboundedness masks the corporate capture of data — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 514; Corporations now command a ‘God view’ of the social world called social caching — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 580; Social caching grants corporate power privileged legibility over human life — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 419 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Platform executives speak as social theorists to legitimize their data extraction models #expands (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 426
• Facebook data employees work continuously to influence users’ moods and behavior #exemplifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 940