User:Tonyvall/sandbox

My sandbox page to experiment with wiki markup. Tonyvall (discuss • contribs) 17:30, 20 February 2017 (UTC)



 Each form of intentional user-generated content – a blog post, a Facebook update, a Tweet, is redoubled in the form of ‘cybernetic commodities’. While they are created by users, they are not controlled by users, who have little choice over how and when this data is generated and little say in how it is used. In this sense, we might describe the generation and use of this data as the alienated or estranged dimension of their activity. To the extent that this information can be used to predict and influence user behaviour it is an activity that returns to users in an unrecognizable form as means of fulfilling the imperatives of others. —Mark Andrejevic, Surveillance and Alienation in the Online Economy, 2011