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What is Digital Capitalism? - Digital Capitalism course: Session 1
In session 1 of TNI's Digital Capitalism course, we ask how is digitalisation shaped by capitalism and how is digitalisation shaping capitalism? Is data today’s most important commodity? What will be the impact of algorithms for social movements? How is digitalisation impacting on labour and the environment?
Masterclass with Cory Doctorow, science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist and co-author of Chokepoint Capitalism, Gurumurthy Kasinathan, director of IT for Change and coordinator of 'Public AI for School Education' project in Kerala,India, and Sofia Scasserra, TNI researcher on digital trade and digital advisor to the international trade union movement.
00:00 Introduction
03:13 Introduction to the Course Program
04:35 Introducing the Course Organisers: Nick Buxton, Sofia Scasserra, Pia Garavaglia, Jess Graham
05:20 Open-source policy of the TNI
06:06 Introduction to the Module for Week 1: What is Digital Capitalism?
06:50 Introduction of experts: Guru Kasinathan, Sofia Scasserra and Cory Doctorow
07:49 Introduction of Cory Doctorow
08:42 Introduction of Gurumurthy Kasinathan
09:44 Introduction of Sofia Scasserra
11:00 How do you define digital capitalism?
11:17 Three main characteristics of digital capitalism
18:26 Digital technologies fuel capitalism
22:24 Technologies are a social construct that can be changed if we demand it
30:05 Platforms themselves aren't inherently bad. It's the commercial ownership structure that can be problematic.
33:29 Enshittification is a reason why platforms decay.
42:27 The role of colonization in digital capitalism
48:28 Social media's rise is linked to concerns about its harm to mental health and its platforms' manipulative tactics.
52:56 Opening of the Q&A.
55:00 What are the differences between capitalism and digital capitalism? How to regulate social media platforms?
58:00 How does prosecution of one company in one country apply to the company in other countries? Why AI cannot actually do your job? Who benefits from this lie?
01:05:44 How corporations are trying to convince you not to fight for your labor rights?
01:10:48 Why do we need political regulations on AI to moderate the job market?
01:14:26 Why are good governance and evidence-based policy incompatible with monopolies?
01:21:30 How to oppose digital capitalism?
01:24:10 How can the internet help mobilize people to take collective action?
01:27:55 Why should states take on greater accountability for regulating corporations at local, national, and international levels?
01:29:11 Wrap-Up
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Komentáře

  • @insperatus
    @insperatus Před 7 dny

    Maybe Uber drivers should buy up all the Uber stock and then they can call the shots.

  • @kylesebring
    @kylesebring Před 7 dny

    Mans talking about correlation like its causation, saying random conjecture like it proves something.

  • @AllFlimmits
    @AllFlimmits Před 8 dny

    Hey buddy you're saying more selective and less selective in reference to both individuals. You're talking nonsense like "well when the more selective person stops selecting as much and becomes more selective their wages go up"

  • @littlebrother82
    @littlebrother82 Před 8 dny

    His final point doesn't seem related to his example

  • @DanielOrtiz-ok7bp
    @DanielOrtiz-ok7bp Před 10 dny

    Why is Micheal keaton so mad

  • @Nakata2021
    @Nakata2021 Před 10 dny

    why this is abusing?

  • @RobRasun
    @RobRasun Před 16 dny

    This man has been ordained the Mettreyah Buddha by the dali lama, he is the living antichrist and we are currently living under his kingdom.

  • @Stafus
    @Stafus Před 24 dny

    Financial profit is only derived from the deliberate and forceful creation of a large working class. Feudalism is to blame for that, then the capitalist took advantage of that ready made class system. without that foundational class system capitalism could not exist. The hierarchies of feudalism and capitalism are pyramid shaped, while every natural hierarchy of competence is a bell curve (IQ bell curve) with few at the top and bottom and the majority in the middle. Pyramid hierarchies are artificial and integral to capitalism/profit, there has to be a very large base of low paid workers in a capitalist hierarchy in order for profit to be generated. Financial profit is not possible in a natural (bell curve) hierarchy because there aren't enough people at the bottom to skim labor value from. Capitalism is not contrary to feudalism, capitalism is the lying rat that feudalism gave birth to.

  • @gregbituinjr.1961
    @gregbituinjr.1961 Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you very much for this discussions. We in the Philippines learn something about this course.

  • @paul3116
    @paul3116 Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you! Really super interesting and informative.

  • @Mr-nowbody
    @Mr-nowbody Před 2 měsíci

    Hay un estudio llamado de la coca ala coaina Donde ya esta demostrado ser un superalimento

  • @donaldf.switlick3690
    @donaldf.switlick3690 Před 2 měsíci

    ===== Cultural prejudice is not racism. Thomas Sowell, in his well researched book, identifies a general, cultural prejudice directed at a specific subculture of African Americans, which he terms 'black rednecks.' This difference in cultures highlights the existence of conflict and prejudice toward or between certain groups. czcams.com/video/5vbOUTNs66o/video.html The presence of African Americans in significant positions of authority (Congresspersons, Mayors, Chiefs of Police, Generals, Judges, and various other roles) challenges the notion of the U.S. today, being a systemically racist society. While cultural prejudice undoubtedly exists, labeling it as racism is not supported by substantial evidence. Racism is the intellectual mistake of thinking that there is a causal link between culture and race. Research has repeatedly shown that race is not a scientifically valid concept. www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01968-z

  • @alt1f4
    @alt1f4 Před 2 měsíci

    🤯

  • @andredimilano
    @andredimilano Před 3 měsíci

    I can help theese families with money for their kids and they can send some of the product by post to me.

  • @vandolmatzis8146
    @vandolmatzis8146 Před 3 měsíci

    Thanks Fiona.

  • @fortisfortunaadiuvat9262
    @fortisfortunaadiuvat9262 Před 3 měsíci

    I actually feel sorry for her. She is so naive and emotionally insecure living in a true fantasy land

  • @sethtaylorm925
    @sethtaylorm925 Před 4 měsíci

    So anyone that don't agree with, is right wing extremist

  • @tertuliapatrioticavirtual8288

    PINOCHET NOS SALVÓ DE UNA BESTIAL DICTADURA COMUNISTA !!!

  • @shawn3126
    @shawn3126 Před 4 měsíci

    If you play the video in 0.25x speed at 0:36 you would vividly see that he only has 4 fingers on his right hand.

  • @arjanvisser6658
    @arjanvisser6658 Před 4 měsíci

    This fits exactly with what Prof. Shoshana Zuboff writes about this in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

  • @arjanvisser6658
    @arjanvisser6658 Před 4 měsíci

    This is a video with very important information about how the multi stakeholder world works and how dangerous it is. This information needs to be spread everywhere. The silence needs to be broken.

  • @williams.1980
    @williams.1980 Před 5 měsíci

    you said something at the end about "regaining control of the internet". We never had control of the internet. We cannot regain something we never had.. We basically have to start another net. Not having any other network or community is the lifeblood of this type of oligarchy state or some would say new form of feudalism or communication, documentation, training and conditioning, entertainment, population control monitoring and control system. It encompasses many or all aspects of the individual's life, in some cases it is the controlling middleman. There is no possible intervention. Zero. It is full on zero sum game. There is only alternative networking and community IMO. But herein lies the rub. The zero sum game aspect. We've been captured. We were told this is what we want. I mean the vast majority of us. We were told what we want and we believed it and now we got what we wanted. Everybody gets a new shiny thing and a new contract every year.

    • @JohnDoe-bt9qp
      @JohnDoe-bt9qp Před 5 měsíci

      You're right. Everything in this world is controlled (including the internet) by a tiny group of people that you can't mention. That's why we need to take ten steps back and create our own internet, grow our own food, build our own homes and create our own industries. The time has come, this world has become so boring over the years, it seems like everything good has been removed, that's why we have to build our own world.

  • @robertmcmanus9185
    @robertmcmanus9185 Před 6 měsíci

    She's also a hate monger. Look up her "burn it all down" comment encouraging arson against the Catholic Church. I'm all for holding people/institutions accountable including the Catholic church but advocating for violence and then hearing this nonsense? Help us all.

  • @bkik5
    @bkik5 Před 6 měsíci

    These idiots have no idea whose interests abolishing borders will actually serve. The global borderless rich are clasping their hands and smiling when they see activists like Harsha Walia doing their dirty work. Poor brown people will still be stuck where they are, as will poor white people, and the most desirable places on earth to live will become completely inaccessible to anyone but the children of robber barons of all colours.

  • @jimo9555
    @jimo9555 Před 6 měsíci

    _"ISDS is good for Europe because...?"_ _"I think that question is slightly misleading..."_ Oh my god ...this is gonna be good 🤣🤣🤣

  • @LOVINGKINDNESS_SCHOOL
    @LOVINGKINDNESS_SCHOOL Před 7 měsíci

    🫀

  • @ThePseudoBasher
    @ThePseudoBasher Před 7 měsíci

    We should also have no doors and locks. Everybody should be allowed to live in any house with anybody.

  • @noahii7577
    @noahii7577 Před 7 měsíci

    Absolutely mind-blowing talk. Wish more people got to hear it. When I heard it for the first time I felt so inspired but I never knew where to even start advocating for these collaborative security solutions when they're so far removed from popular discourse (I live in the Netherlands), where hiring violence workers and entrenching racial capitalism is still seen as the main way to solve global problems (even on the left).

    • @TransnationalInst
      @TransnationalInst Před 5 měsíci

      Thank you for the feedback, great that it inspired you!

  • @fffff-zu1xk
    @fffff-zu1xk Před 8 měsíci

    Thanks, Pinochet 🇨🇱

    • @bradyshields6168
      @bradyshields6168 Před měsícem

      Why do you support the guy who raped people with dogs?

  • @InXLsisDeo
    @InXLsisDeo Před 8 měsíci

    I'm french, have been observing US politics for more than 15 years, and I have independently come to the exact same conclusions as this person.

  • @EuropeanReality
    @EuropeanReality Před 8 měsíci

    Note to viewers: Harsha Walia is a promotor of hate speech against Roman Catholic Canadians. Supported the burning of catholic church's in Canada in 2021 hate crime attack and is a dangerous individual making false historical accusations. Please always research the individuals who you listen to. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_church_burnings

  • @amandayang804
    @amandayang804 Před 9 měsíci

    What is meaning of the bird case ?I didn’t get it 😢

  • @Lucciano.
    @Lucciano. Před 9 měsíci

    al final es una frontera muy transitada y estados unidos no debe refugiar a todos, la prioridad es proteger su pais

  • @USA50_
    @USA50_ Před 9 měsíci

    Propaganda

  • @USA50_
    @USA50_ Před 9 měsíci

    God Bless the World, America, Westernized society and its values. Amen 🇺🇸👍❤️😊🌎🌍🌏

    • @tangerinesarebetterthanora7060
      @tangerinesarebetterthanora7060 Před 2 měsíci

      The westernized world and its values isn't the world, it's yours. All empty abstractions that have perpetuated war and exploitation.

  • @USA50_
    @USA50_ Před 9 měsíci

    Fight back against Anti-Westernisn and Anti-Americanism

  • @USA50_
    @USA50_ Před 9 měsíci

    Advocating global chaos & the destruction of Westernized ways of living

  • @USA50_
    @USA50_ Před 9 měsíci

    Misinformation

  • @kathleenmann7311
    @kathleenmann7311 Před 10 měsíci

    With all of the wildfires, volcanic activity and wars, there’s a lot of dust in the atmosphere. I think this dust is dimming the amount of light that reaches the earth. My tomatoes have taken an extra week to ripen this year. 🤔

  • @Shogoeu
    @Shogoeu Před 10 měsíci

    This is a nice video, but I have the feeling the sound recoding is holding it back. It's worth investing in a headset or a separate microphone to record the narration with. Built-in camera microphones are usually very low quality.

  • @ArunKumar-te8vw
    @ArunKumar-te8vw Před 10 měsíci

    Behind manipur tensions opium trade gangs playing.some missionaries supporting it.

  • @buzzblitzer750
    @buzzblitzer750 Před rokem

    Climate cycles….the 90 year Gleissberg cycle, the 400 year solar cycle, and the never mentioned 12,000 year orbital cycle. No one mentions solar magnetospheric energy, the effect is has on both plate techtonics and climate.

  • @perseusrex614
    @perseusrex614 Před rokem

    great docu, thanks. I hope nothing but the best for these people and all like them. You wont get rid of drugs ever, you have to minimize them. A healthy society will have few addicts, but still some. A broken society will have many addicts and must be fixed, not penalize the people who are stuck in it and trying to make it thru as best they can, no matter where in the chain they are.

  • @MrSmith-jj9te
    @MrSmith-jj9te Před rokem

    How do corporations and government want to run the world? Straight into the goddamned ground for maximum profits and social control. The wealth inequality gap has long told the tale of the governments and corporations diseased intentions. The human race just had to look. The majority of the planetary population has been turned into a bunch at best serfs heading straight for modernized enslavement at the behest of government and corporate control instead of strengthening the status of sovereign individuality.

  • @erasmoescobar690
    @erasmoescobar690 Před rokem

    Que bueno ue se fue este Aweonao

  • @ramonfox679
    @ramonfox679 Před rokem

    Good stuff! Want views? -> P r o m o S M!!

  • @ibrahimbenza6432
    @ibrahimbenza6432 Před rokem

    So this is what this satan asylum been doing here since idi amin or since she was born destroying us..i've already got my grandson mikhail for all of these altitude hkakabo razi replacing them here,the sugar cane fields..till the time comes for the angkor wat walks me again,take care n god bless..love buddha#

  • @05carsm
    @05carsm Před rokem

    Este tipo es de la Diego Portales por qué pretenden hacerlo pasar por egresado de la Chile?

  • @cumulusterraticus3446

    Me as KING OF THE WORLD !

  • @gregoryking8574
    @gregoryking8574 Před rokem

    United States will not going to going to respond after killing 3,000 Americans are you mother f****** crazy