Uprise Radio - Episode 28 - Surveillance Capitalism or Why to stop the endless scroll and put down your phone permanently.

Wednesday, 7 October 2020 - 5:30pm to 6:00pm

Jackson and James talk about 2 films The Social Dilemma & The Great Hack. The Social Dilemma was released on Netflix Australia in August as is a documentary aimed at late high school which attempts to explain the economic underpinnings of free internet services like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Google. In explaining how these products make huge sums of money by making human behaviour the product to sell, The Social Dilemma touches lightly on the role this enormous market is playing to undermine democracy and human agency. The Great Hack (released last year) deals more closely with the political impacts of this technology and the economic logic it supports - exposing the role data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica played in manipulating voters via Facebook during the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US Presidential Election.