Understanding Digital and Surveillance Capitalism from Sociocybernetic Perspectives

This session aims to bring together papers using sociocybernetics theories, concepts, tools, and methods that seek to understand how does digital capitalism and surveillance capitalism work. Digital capitalism is understood for this session as “the collection of processes, sites, and moments in which digital technology mediates the structural tendencies of capitalism (Pace, 2018:262).” Surveillance capitalism will be understood as a management practice that unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data for commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales (Zuboff, 2019: 13).” The session welcomes papers from a wide variety of topics, such as communication, international affairs, geopolitics, interference of political processes, cybersecurity, utilisation of apps and algorithms, etc. Also, receives papers seeking to explain the concentration of political powers favouring certain corporations and political groups to enhance instrumentarian powers that assert dominance over social systems; especially those using the media system, its programmatic fields, and developing strategies such as infodemic, fake news management, the use of social media for spreading disinformation, etc.