The Political Economy of Big Tech

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Introduces how, from airplanes to artificial intelligence, people use technology to control the natural world, other people, and themselves; technology is thus central to the political economies by which societies produce and distribute power and wealth. Analyzes why Big Tech – corporations like Amazon, Google, and Tesla – have arisen to infuse computational and internet technologies into every corner of the economy. Investigates how – and the extent to which –Big Tech has empowered or exploited different socio-economic groups.