Paul Geyer: What insights does "Watchdogs 2" offer into social media, data and democracy?

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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