A Guide to Understanding and Combatting Digital Capitalism

Rivera, Javier de

doi:10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1173

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“…The process of realizing the metaverse carried out by Facebook and its allies is actually the implementation of the practice of digital capitalism. Digital capitalism is simply a continuation of capitalism which focuses on its production process on selling digital commodities while maintaining the basic dynamics of capitalism (Rivera, 2020). The practice of digital capitalism is mostly carried out because it does not require the arrangement of many human resources in the organization.…”

Section: Metaverse In Futurementioning

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“…The practice of digital capitalism is mostly carried out because it does not require the arrangement of many human resources in the organization. Digital capitalism only requires the development of knowledge and creativity in assembling innovations (Rivera, 2020). However, digital commodities developed by Facebook, such as advertisements, encourage the practice of digital capitalism to manipulate consumers.…”

Section: Metaverse In Futurementioning

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Metaverse: Threat or Opportunity for Our Social World? In understanding Metaverse on sociological context

BUANA

2023

Journal of Metaverse

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Metaverse technology is a new technology that will focus on working, studying and entertainment in the future. In sociology, the existence of this technology will change the culture of society. The connection to social reality will be lost in the metaverse. This article aims to discuss in detail how the reality of technology metaverse in social life. This article will be discussed using the sociological descriptive analysis method in depth using various theories in the field of sociology. In this paper, will focus more on the discussion of how metaverse technology can affect human social life, what impact this technology has on humans, what challenges this technology faces, and the analysis of this technology from the sociological context. Although still in the design stage, the impact of this new technology seems to be obvious. In sociology, the existence of this metaverse technology will try to change the culture of society such as the culture of interacting, working to seeking entertainment. Although still in the design phase, the impact of this new technology seems to be real.

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Section: Metaverse In Futurementioning

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Section: Metaverse In Futurementioning

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Metaverse: Threat or Opportunity for Our Social World? In understanding Metaverse on sociological context

BUANA

2023

Journal of Metaverse

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“…On the other hand, the development of global-level digital capitalism has generated a series of relevant changes in the educational debate over the last decade (De Rivera, 2020). Some of them respond to the development of the global education industry (GEI; Verger et al, 2016) due to the strengthening of Big Tech companies that have found in education an attractive space for offering their products and expanding their investments.…”

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Digital leap in the New Mexican school since the pandemic lockdown: Challenges for governance and pedagogical processes

Peraza,

Jarquín

2023

EPAA

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This paper analyzes the extent to which the use of digital education platforms (DEP), which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, has modified educational policies for digital transition in schools in the context of the last Mexican educational reform (2019), teaching-learning processes, and school-family relations. Our main hypothesis is that the digital leap, in the New Mexican School that emerged from the last educational reform, has considerably modified the methods of educational governance, the pedagogical processes in schooling, and the ways of communication between schools and families, with implications for children’s rights. The objective is to identify, from the stakeholders’ perspectives, the effects of the growing importance of BigTech corporations in Mexico and of the expansion of digital capitalism, which deepened as an effect of school closures due to the pandemic, and to analyze the results from the gender perspective. The research methodology is qualitative based on in-depth interviews with policymakers and a survey of 70 school principals, teachers, and families from the five educational regions of the country. Our main research objective is to explore the perceptions, experiences, and opinions of women and men in urban and rural environments about the changes experienced since the pandemic in terms of digital transition and to identify the benefits and constraints of using DEP in schooling contexts.

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“…Over the last years, however, a growing number of voices is starting to express concern over the speed at which digitalisation is happening. This critical wave discusses in particular the field of education technologies, with structural critiques such as those of Watters [1], to platforms such as those by Selwyn [2], or more broadly to "digital capitalism" [3]. While these critical voices do exist, they are a minority in a landscape dominated by a general optimism and hype around (education) digitalisation 1 .…”

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“…Existing work that addresses the issues discussed so far can range from highly conceptual [5] to quantitative [6] with, however, limited explorations on the intersections between the many disciplines working on this field. Furthermore, relevant initiatives, virtuous examples or experiments such as the LowTechMagazine website 2 [7], CoopCloud 3 , commercial initiatives such as Ungleich's Data Center Light 4 , or the many reflections and examples on the field of "permacomputing" [8] are anecdotally regarded, in institutional discourse, as fringe experiences that cannot be replicated, or applied at scale within institutional boundaries.…”

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Conceptualising Resources-aware Higher Education DigitalInfrastructure through Self-hosting: a Multi-disciplinary View

Angeli

Okur

Corradini

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Eighth Workshop on Computing Within Limits 2022

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As higher education digitalises, institutions increasingly outsource the development and management of their digital infrastructure including server hardware and services such as email, shared storage, and video conferencing, to private companies. This outsourcing trend is a change in paradigm, since universities have historically been pioneers in deploying and maintaining their own digital infrastructure, a practice also known as self-hosting. Digital infrastructure has a key role in all of a university's functions: administration, research, and education. While outsourcing infrastructure has benefits in the form of convenience and lower costs, it also erodes institutional independence, centralises points of failure, and delegates highly relevant value choices about privacy, data ownership and environmental impact to external actors.In this article, we provide a first quantification of a potential return to self-hosting, emphasising its effect in energy reduction and avoided e-waste. We then outline some policy actions that could enable higher education institutions to re-take control over their digital infrastructure by building local services. This mode of operation reduces waste, and has the added benefit of increased resilience to scenarios of resource scarcity and collapse of external infrastructure. As an example of what could be achieved leveraging these policies, we detail the architecture of a low-impact data centre made of upcycled hardware and resource-aware software. By exploring our main structural choices we aim to showcase how, even starting from a generally heavy-weight software stack such as Kubernetes, there is significant space to reduce digital infrastructure's overall resource footprint.

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A Guide to Understanding and Combatting Digital Capitalism

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Metaverse: Threat or Opportunity for Our Social World? In understanding Metaverse on sociological context

Metaverse: Threat or Opportunity for Our Social World? In understanding Metaverse on sociological context

Digital leap in the New Mexican school since the pandemic lockdown: Challenges for governance and pedagogical processes

Conceptualising Resources-aware Higher Education DigitalInfrastructure through Self-hosting: a Multi-disciplinary View

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