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We can therefore speak of capitalist society. Capitalism is a type of society where the mass of humans is alienated from the conditions of economic, political, and cultural production, which means that they do not control the conditions that shape their lives, which enables privileged groups’ accumulation of capital in the economy, decision-power in politics, and reputation, attention, and respect in culture. Alienation in the economy means the dominant class exploitation of the working class’ labour. Alienation in non-economic systems means domination, that is, one group’s benefits at the expense of other groups via means of control such as state power, ideology, and violence. In capitalism, we find the accumulation of capital in the economy, the accumulation of decision-power and influence in politics, and the accumulation of reputation, attention, and respect in culture. The key aspect is not that there is growth, but that there is the attempt of the dominant class and dominant groups to accumulate power at the expense of others who as a consequence have disadvantages. Capitalist society is therefore based on an economic antagonism of exploitation between classes and social antagonisms of domination.\n\nDigital capitalism is the dimension of capitalist society where processes of the accumulation of capital, decision-power, and reputation are mediated by and organised with the help of digital technologies and where economic, political, and cultural processes result in digital goods and digital structures. Digital labour, digital capital, the digital means of production, political online communication, digital aspects of protests and social struggles, ideology online, and influencer-dominated digital culture are some of the features of digital capitalism. In digital capitalism, the accumulation of capital and power is mediated by digital technologies. There are economic, political, and cultural-ideological dimensions of digital capitalism. Digital capitalism is an antagonistic dimension of society, a dimension that stands for how the economic class antagonism and the social relations of domination are shaped by and shape digitalisation. Digital capitalism’s antagonisms are the class antagonism between digital labour and digital capital, the political antagonism between digital dictators and digital citizens, and the cultural antagonism between digital ideologues and digital humans.\n\nBig data analytics and computational social science have emerged as a new paradigm in research. This paradigm is a form of digital positivism (see chapter 7) that fetishizes quantification. It is a type of instrumental reason, what Georg Lukács characterises as reification (see chapter 5), and what Engels criticises as naïve materialism (see section 3.2 in chapter 3). The danger is that computer science colonises the social sciences and leaves no space and time for critical theory, social theory, and philosophy. The main danger of the computational social science is that it makes the social sciences uncritical and turns them into administrative sciences. Ethics, morals, critique, theory, emotions, affects, motivations, worldviews, interpretations, political assessments, power, social struggles, contradictions love, sadness, happiness, (dis)respect, (in)justice, solidarity, etc. cannot be properly understood by purely or predominantly quantitative methods.\n\n312\n\nConclusion","previous_page":null,"next_page":313}