Tech companies portray virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri as our helpers. In reality, we're helping them gather the behavioural data they need to turn a profit.
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Amazon nixed plans to build a headquarters in Long Island City after some New Yorkers questioned the wisdom of offering billions in tax breaks in exchange for job promises. A Texas study suggests they had reason to worry.
The tensions between platforms and their workers can be better understood by studying the mutual expectations of both parties.
For decades, advertisers and marketers struggled to predict the consumption of leisure products such as movies and books. Now, big data reveals how people really spend their leisure time.
Until last December, Internet service providers were required to respect the principle of web neutrality. This is no longer the case in the United States. What are the consequences?
Monopolies are bad for innovation and dismantling them would help the US economy compete.
If you're worried your phone is recording your private conversations, look closer at the data you've already agreed to give away.
Forget Brexit or online competition. Millennials are just not consuming with the same fervour as their mums and dads.
Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg's theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
Companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Airbnb and Tesla are redefining key aspects of daily life such as work, mobility and leisure, using our cities as laboratories for their innovations.
Some say the more than 230 cities that lost their bids for Amazon's second headquarters were dupes in the retailer's game. In fact, they were willing participants with their own aims.
Chinese customers spend billions on Nov. 11. Why, and what does it mean for the global retail marketplace?
Amazon, Facebook and Google have lofty goals for their effects on global society. But people around the world are still waiting for the positive results. Here's what the tech giants could do.
Expecting algorithms to perform perfectly might be asking too much of ourselves.
More than two-thirds of Earth's remaining wilderness is in the hands of just five countries, according to a new global map. A concerted conservation effort is needed to save our last wild places.
Australia's unemployment rate may have to fall much more before we see any wages growth.
The rise of superstar companies that dominate their industries may be partly to blame for the lack of wage growth in the US in recent years. It could also suggest a solution.
Research shows that consumers don't like it when businesses make money. Why?
Our 'Tony Stark' image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.
Brazil has set itself a target of restoring almost 50,000 sq km of the Amazon rainforest by 2030. But it won't get there without changing its policies and how it engages with local people.
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Associate Professor in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Practice, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Fellow, Peabody Media Center; Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer Marketing & Strategy, Royal Holloway
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Ecosystem Services, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Head of School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
