In information economics, '''data capitalism''' denotes a "genus" of capitalism where data is the source of monetization and often the currency and the final value.<ref name="Shiller Wren-Lewis Proaño Theobald 2015">{{cite web | last1=Shiller | first1=Robert | last2=Wren-Lewis | first2=Simon | last3=Proaño | first3=Christian | last4=Theobald | first4=Thomas | last5=Schulten | first5=Thorsten | last6=Luebker | first6=Malte | last7=Gros | first7=Daniel | last8=Akkerman | first8=Tjitske | last9=Hannibalsson | first9=Jón Baldvin | last10=Saxer | first10=Marc | last11=Pattakos | first11=Michalis | last12=Meyer | first12=Henning | title=Digital Technologies And The Future Of Data Capitalism | website=Social Europe | date=2015-06-23 | url=https://www.socialeurope.eu/digital-technologies-and-the-future-of-data-capitalism | access-date=2017-08-17}}</ref><ref name="Pratap 2017">{{cite web | last=Pratap | first=Anita | title=The era of data capitalism | website=theweek.in | date=2017-03-05 | url=http://www.theweek.in/columns/Anita-Pratap/the-era-of-data-capitalism.html | access-date=2017-08-17 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21721634-how-it-shaping-up-data-giving-rise-new-economy|title = Data is giving rise to a new economy|newspaper = The Economist|date = 6 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="III 2017">{{cite web | last=III | first=Claude Robinson | title=Spreading the Wealth of Data Capitalism | website=Oracle Infrastructure Blog | date=2017-06-01 | url=https://blogs.oracle.com/infrastructure/spreading-the-wealth-of-data-capitalism | access-date=2017-08-17}}</ref>
A typical application of the principles of data worth is found in surveillance capitalism. The methodology for processing such mass data is usually summarized in the buzzword 'big data'.
The general concept of monetization of data is described in data monetization.
==See also== *Information society *Neuromarketing
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Category:Capitalism
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