Capitalismo digital: fragilidad social, explotación y solucionismo tecnológico

Aitor Jiménez González; César Rendueles Menéndez de Llano

doi:10.5209/tekn.70378

Digital capitalism: social fragility, exploitation and technological solutionism

Aitor Jiménez González Auckland University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6818-8968
César Rendueles Menéndez de Llano Universidad Complutense de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4594-5553

Agencies: Doctoral Research Fund. Universidad de Auckland (Nueva Zelanda), COVID PhD initiative. Universidad de Auckland (Nueva Zelanda) REF- 3722228

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Author Biography

César Rendueles Menéndez de Llano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Profesor ayudante doctor en el Departamento de Sociología: Metodología y Teoría de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Es autor de Sociofobia. El cambio político en la era de la utopía digital (2013) y En bruto. Una reivindicación del materialismo histórico (2016).

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Jiménez González A. y Rendueles Menéndez de Llano C. (2020). Digital capitalism: social fragility, exploitation and technological solutionism. Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, 17(2), 95-101. https://doi.org/10.5209/tekn.70378

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