{"id":49219,"date":"2018-06-26T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/?p=49219"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:13:21","slug":"social-order-in-the-digital-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/en\/social-order-in-the-digital-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Social order in the digital society"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today\u2019s digital economy, data is so important that many observers speak of it as \u201cthe oil of the 21st century.\u201d The corporations that collect the most of it have a competitive advantage. The business model of internet giants such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook is based on facilitating user interaction and thereby generating huge amounts of data. Fourcade describes this basic structure of the data economy as a Faustian bargain\u2014in exchange for free services, we have to give away our soul, in the form of our privacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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On May 7, 2018, Marion Fourcade continued the lecture series Making Sense of the Digital Society<\/em><\/a>. Fourcade is professor of sociology at UC Berkeley and an associate fellow of the Max Planck \u2013 Sciences Po Center on coping with instability in market societies. Fourcade\u2019s upcoming book The Ordinal Society investigates new forms of social stratification and morality in the digital economy.<\/p>\n

Only two days after the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, Fourcade fittingly focused on questions of social inequality and exclusion. In her talk about social order in the digital society<\/a> she dealt with the social consequences of today’s data collection practices.<\/p>\n

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