Digital technologies reach three billion people and now mediate nearly all social life

Evidence

Information and communications technologies are more widespread than electricity, reaching three billion of the world’s seven billion people. The entangled dilemmas of knowledge, authority, and power are no longer confined to workplaces as they were in the 1980s. Now their roots run deep through the necessities of daily life, mediating nearly every form of social participation. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 22

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Castell’s claims about network society mediating everyday life, and to Zuboff’s own In the Age of the Smart Machine as the workplace-bound predecessor. — connects to: Mobile connectivity transformed the internet into a continuous overlay of everyday life. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 113; Platforms exceed most nation-states in network size and act as social infrastructures — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 131; Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Billions now organize personal lives around data-dependent platform infrastructures #corroborates (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 585
• Digitalization is a third communications revolution comparable to the printing press #exemplifies (0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 31
• Human life as organized through data is the new direct input of capitalism #corroborates (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 160
• Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations #qualifies (0.72)
• The digital era shifts society’s axis from division of labor to division of learning #expands (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 600