What role does social media play in our lives? Is there life after data? And what does the future look like in a world where privacy is a luxury?

In this episode, we welcome Paul Geyer, PGR at the University of Leeds, political theorist and five-a-side football star. We talk to Paul about Watchdogs 2 to discuss what happens to social media after data, neofeudalism and the challenges of privacy.

Works mentioned:

• Arditi, D., 2023. Digital feudalism: Creators, credit, consumption, and capitalism. Emerald Publishing Limited: Bingley
• Soares, Ian Varela, Masaru Yarime, and Magdalena Klemun. "Balancing the trade-off between data center development and its environmental impacts: A comparative analysis of Data Center Policymaking in Singapore, Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, USA, and the UK." Environmental Science & Policy 157 (2024): 103769.
• Srnicek, N., 2017. Platform capitalism. Polity Press: Cambridge.
• Unterberger, K. and Fuchs, C., 2021. The public service media and public service internet manifesto (p. 135). University of Westminster Press.
• Varoufakis, Y. 2023. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. Random House: London.
• Zuboff, S., 2019, January. Surveillance capitalism and the challenge of collective action. In New labor forum (Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 10-29). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

Find Paul here:

• https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/pgr/1383/paul-geyer
• Geyer, P. 2024. An Uncritiqued Frontier of Social Media: The Social Media Subscription Model. In tripleC: Communication, capitalism & critique (Vol. 22, No. 1, pp.44-58).

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