'''Surveillance capitalism''' is a term first introduced by John Bellamy Foster and Robert McChesney in ''Monthly Review'' and in2014 later popularized by academic [[Shoshana Zuboff]] that denotes a [[History of capitalism|new]] genus of [[capitalism]] that [[data capitalism|monetizes data]] acquired through [[surveillance]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2014/07/01/surveillance-capitalism/|title=Surveillance Capitalism {{!}} John Bellamy Foster {{!}} Monthly Review|date=2014-07-01|work=Monthly Review|access-date=2018-02-12|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Powles|first1=Julia|title=Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/02/google-microsoft-pact-antitrust-surveillance-capitalism|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=9 February 2017|date=2 May 2016}}</ref><ref name=faz1>{{cite web|last1=Zuboff|first1=Shoshana|title=Google as a Fortune Teller: The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism|url=http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshana-zuboff-secrets-of-surveillance-capitalism-14103616.html?printPagedArticle=true|publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|accessdate=9 February 2017|date=5 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Sterling|first1=Bruce|title=Shoshanna Zuboff condemning Google "surveillance capitalism"|url=https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2016/03/shoshanna-zuboff-condemning-google-surveillance-capitalism/|publisher=WIRED|date=March 2016}}</ref>
According to Zuboff, surveillance capitalism emerged due to the "coupling of the vast powers of the [[digital technology|digital]] with the radical indifference and intrinsic narcissism of the [[financial capitalism]] and its [[neoliberal]] vision that have dominated commerce for at least three decades, especially in the Anglo economies"<ref name=faz1/> and depends on the global architecture of computer mediation which produces a distributed and largely uncontested new expression of power she calls 'Big Other'.<ref name=ssrn>{{cite journal|last1=Zuboff|first1=Shoshana|title=Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization|journal=Journal of Information Technology|date=9 April 2015|volume=30|issue=1|pages=75–89|doi=10.1057/jit.2015.5|ssrn=2594754|accessdate=|publisher=Social Science Research Network}}</ref>
