Cybernetic capitalism: Google's digital empire

Monday, 24 August 2020 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

"I'll just Google it". How many times a day has this refrain been uttered by someone struggling to find the answer to a question? Timothy Eric Strom, researcher and writer on global political economy, looks at the power of Google to enter our everyday lives and translate that power into profit-making and personal surveillance.