CSE 591y: Surveillance Capitalism Reading Group
Spring 2019

Wednesdays, 3:30-4:20pm, CSE 503

CSE 591y this quarter is a reading group for The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and related books and papers.

Links for The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

• Shoshana Zuboff's website
• Publisher's website for the book (includes an online version of the first part of the introduction)
• Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “We Thought We Were Searching Google, But Google Was Searching Us”, interview with Shoshana Zuboff on Democracy Now, Part 1
• Big Tech Stole Our Data While Democracy Slept: Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, interview with Shoshana Zuboff on Democracy Now, Part 2

Reviews

• John Naughton, 'The goal is to automate us': Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Guardian, 20 Jan 2019.
• Evgeny Morozov, Capitalism's New Clothes, The Baffler, February 4 2019 (book review and commentary).

Additional Information

• There is a copy of the book on reserve in the Engineering Library for the quarter (24 hour loan), although most participants will probably want to buy their own copies.
• Related paper: The High Cost of Free Services: Problems with Surveillance Capitalism and Possible Alternatives for IT Infrastructure by Marvin Landwehr, Alan Borning, and Volker Wulf. To appear, LIMITS 2019 Workshop
• Facilitator: Alan Borning, borning at cs. Office: CSE 478.
• Course mailing list: cse591y_sp19@uw.edu. Students who are registered for CSE 591y will be on the list automatically; otherwise ask Alan to be added.