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Information + communication technologies are intensifying existing capitalist structures. Digital tech is embedded in material conditions and exacerbate inequality.

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ICTs expand digital divide

Elites gain access to connectivity + data

Marginalized Groups become precarious digital labour

"access to tech" is a smokescreen for inequality

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ICTS: Tech Change w/o Structural Change - F. Webster

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ICTS: Tech Change w/o Structural Change - F. Webster

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critiques 'information society' as mythic rupture

ICTs deepen inequality

'Weightless economy' hides labor exploitation (Google, Gmail, Youtube)

Feeds into austerity + deregulation

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Global Supply Chains + Centralized Control - P. Dicken

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Global Supply Chains + Centralized Control - P. Dicken

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• ICTs enable transnational production

• Firms use digital tech to intensify exploitation (Amazon)

• Power remains with multinationals

• Technologies reinforce cor-periphery dynamics.

• Suppresses labour resistance, more managerial control

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Myth of Immaterial Labour -                 N. Garnham

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Myth of Immaterial Labour -                 N. Garnham

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• Symbolic goods still require material production

• Labour is behind data, content, and infrastructure

• Affect, attention, and emotion become commodified.

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• AI automates surveillance, profiling, prediction

• Extracts value from productivity + emotion

• The Algorithm didn't choose you - it profiled you

• deepens managerial control over workers + consumers

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• AI and ICTs restructure + intensify capitalism

• Tech serves power