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social media advertising costs archive/dissertation archive/mc433

[...] Practically this means that a lot of companies want to advertise on Facebook and calculate social media advertising costs into their commodity prices. [...]

—p.54 Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism Towards Marxian Internet Studies (22) by Christian Fuchs
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shouldn’t we do something about marketing itself? archive/dissertation archive/mc433

[...] yes, some of us might find ingenious engineering solutions to resist insidious marketing, but in all this celebration of modern technology, shouldn’t we also do something about the marketing itself? Why force consumers to monitor themselves and hone their willpower techniques if we can make i…

—p.340 To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist Smart Gadgets, Dumb Humans (318) by Evgeny Morozov
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the dangers of personalised news archive/mc433

Turow draws a rather depressing conclusion from all of this, but it’s hard to disagree: “We are entering a world of intensively customized content, a world in which publishers and even marketers will package personalized advertisements with soft news or entertainment that is tailored to fit both th…

—p.163 The Perils of Algorithmic Gatekeeping (140) by Evgeny Morozov