Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surveillance capitalism


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure)  CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   00:10, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Surveillance capitalism

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I don't think this is notable enough for a stand alone article. I'll admit that I'm not good at finding things, but there seems to be a lack of significant coverage in reliable independent sources. I suggest we delete this article and merge anything with here with encyclopedic value into other articles. TheDracologist (talk) 19:46, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete OR. Sounds like an essay. South Nashua (talk) 20:23, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Specifically which part(s) is/are OR? I see a lot of sources here. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 02:32, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:57, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep (probably) - I'm seeing a lot of coverage of this concept that would seem to justify inclusion somewhere. As I'm not seeing a logical merge target, it seems like a keep is probable. Guardian, Wired, Boing Boing, The Conversation, Frankfurter Allgemeine, RT, Huffington Post... just the first couple pages of ghits. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 02:43, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per User:Rhododendrites — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seraphim System (talk • contribs) 00:52, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - definitely sufficient WP:RS. --Fixuture (talk) 12:20, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep I noted on the talk page of the article that I felt that there was over-emphasis on the particular term, "surveillance capitalism". This term refers to a concept which developed after about 2000, so there is not yet one name for it, but "surveillance capitalism" is one term for describing the concept. The concept itself is discussed in various places. For example, in Tim Wu's Attention Merchants he talks about companies watching what everyone does and selling both the public's attention and detailed information about audiences. I would not object to a name change for this concept if consensus found that another term fit better with the available sources. For example, "Selling of mass surveillance data" might be a more general name for this, or "Commercial capture of surveillance data", or "Mass surveillance data as an asset". The Zuboff theory itself could probably be notable as a stand-alone article, but right how, the content of this Wikipedia article is covering a broader concept which I also think is well covered by the cited sources.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  14:23, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. I see a number of mentions of this term in scholarly sources . Seems to meet GNG. The nominator should use Google Scholar and Books before nominating academic topics.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  07:09, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - it's a thing, it's being talked about, and even films are being made on it. Bearian (talk) 13:43, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


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