Daily life is now comprehensively recorded into a continuous electronic text
Evidence
A wholly new electronic text now extends far beyond the confines of the factory or office. Thanks to our computers, credit cards, and phones, and the cameras and sensors that proliferate in public and private spaces, just about everything we now do is mediated by computers that record and codify the details of our daily lives at a scale that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. We have reached the point at which there is little that is omitted from the continuous accretion of this new electronic text. In later chapters we review many illustrations of the new electronic text as it spreads silently but relentlessly, like a colossal oil slick engulfing everything in its path: your breakfast conversation, the streets in your neighborhood, the dimensions of your living room, your run in the park. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 574
Categorization
- XREF: The oil-slick electronic text resonates with the reader’s interest in attention/platform economics and how everyday life becomes data exhaust. — connects to: Lifestreaming is distinguished from personal diaries by networked public readability — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 545; Continuous connection converts lived activity into machine-readable data and a branded, conditional ‘truth’. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 401; Continuous surveillance archives make every life retrospectively traceable across space and time. (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Platform data extraction operates as a continuous cache-gathering of social life.
#expands(0.90) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 411 - Continuous surveillance archives make every life retrospectively traceable across space and time.
#expands(0.85) - Platforms reconfigure human life to continuously produce extractable data streams.
#expands(0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 45 - Machines can treat everyday digital traces as psychological test items
#expands(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2375