Shoshana Zuboff | |
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![]() Zuboff in 2019 | |
Born | November 18, 1951 |
Title | Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita Harvard Business School |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Chicago (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
Thesis | The Ego at Work (1980) |
Doctoral advisor | Herbert Kelman |
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Academic work | |
Discipline | Social Psychology, Information Systems |
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Institutions | Harvard Business School |
Notable ideas | Surveillance capitalism |
Website | shoshanazuboff |
Shoshana Zuboff (born November 18, 1951)[2] is an American author, professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar.
Zuboff is the author of the books In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, integrates core themes of her research: the Digital Revolution, the evolution of capitalism, the historical emergence of psychological individuality, and the conditions for human development.[2]
Zuboff's work is the source of many original concepts including "surveillance capitalism", "instrumentarian power", the "division of learning in society", "economies of action", the "means of behavior modification", "information civilization", "computer-mediated work", the "automate/informate" dialectic, "abstraction of work", "individualization of consumption" and the "coup from above".