PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE Digital Communication and Personal Data

Abstract

Capitalism, as Fuchs and Chandler (2019, p. 16) put it, is thesynthesis of several dynamically and historically evolving capitalisms.Financial capitalism, mobility capitalism, hyper-industrialcapitalism, digital capitalism, and other forms of capitalismcombine to form a dialectical capitalist unity of interconnected,contradictory moments. This situation can be observed when welook at the development process of the industry in the world. TheFirst Industrial Revolution began with the mechanization thatdeveloped with the widespread use of steam energy. Then camethe Second Industrial Revolution, also called the TechnologyRevolution, which even went farther beyond the social and economictransformation created by a mechanized industrial formthat replaced the manual production before it. This age enabledhumanity to enter an era in which people, commodities, and datawere transferable faster by the railway network, telegraph, andelectricity. That has paved the way for a transformation that willhave profound effects at the social, cultural, and economic levels...