1. Shoshana Zuboff was born on November 18,1951 and is an American author, professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar.
17 Facts About Shoshana Zuboff
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Shoshana Zuboff was born in New England but spent much of her childhood in Argentina.
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Shoshana Zuboff was married to businessman and academic James Maxmin until his death in 2016.
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Shoshana Zuboff joined Harvard Business School in 1981 where she became the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and one of the first tenured women on the HBS faculty.
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Shoshana Zuboff's 1988 book, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, is a study of information technology in the workplace.
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Shoshana Zuboff's work explores a novel market form and a specific logic of capitalist accumulation that she termed "surveillance capitalism".
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Shoshana Zuboff first presented her concept in a 2014 essay, "A Digital Declaration", published in German and English in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Shoshana Zuboff argues that neither privacy nor antitrust laws provide adequate protection from the unprecedented practices of surveillance capitalism.
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Shoshana Zuboff describes surveillance capitalism as an economic and social logic.
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Shoshana Zuboff's book originated the concept of "instrumentarian power", in comparison to traditional totalitarian power.
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Shoshana Zuboff's work is an influential source for the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence community.
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In 1993, Shoshana Zuboff founded the executive education program "Odyssey: School for the Second Half of Life" at the Harvard Business School.
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Shoshana Zuboff became a business columnist, developing and disseminating new concepts from The Support Economy.
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From 2003 to 2005, Shoshana Zuboff published her ideas in her monthly column "Evolving", published in the magazine Fast Company.
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From 2013 to 2016, Shoshana Zuboff was a frequent contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where essays drawn from her emerging work on surveillance capitalism were published in German and English.
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In 2019, Shoshana Zuboff further developed her critique of the social, political and economic impacts of digital technologies in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
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On September 25,2020, Shoshana Zuboff was named as one of the 25 members of the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent monitoring group over Facebook.