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Focusing on the impact of digitalization on higher education, this book critically examines how technological advancements are reshaping universities and contributing to the precarious nature of academic work. It explores the implications for educators and students, highlighting the challenges and transformations in the academic landscape. Through a thorough analysis, the author addresses the intersection of technology and labor, offering insights into the future of academia in a digital age.

Focusing on the interplay between constraints and opportunities in new media, the book delves into how digital and social platforms can enhance the concept of communication and network commons. It investigates the potential of these media to foster a commons-based information society, highlighting their role in promoting collective sharing and access to information.

The aim of this book is to clarify how surveillance in informational capitalism can be theorised. This work constructs theoretically founded typologies in order to systemise the existing literature of surveillance studies and to analyse selected examples. It argues that conventional surveillance theories are insufficient for studying surveillance in general and Internet surveillance in particular. In contrast, a typology of surveillance in informational capitalism, which is based on the foundations of a critical political economy approach, allows to systemise and to analyse (online) surveillance in the spheres of production, circulation, and consumption. In conclusion, political recommendations are drawn in order to overcome surveillance in informational capitalism.