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Big other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Technology, March 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 255)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
55 news outlets
blogs
13 blogs
policy
16 policy sources
twitter
62 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
25 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
14 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
2909 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Big other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization
Published in
Journal of Information Technology, March 2015
DOI 10.1057/jit.2015.5
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 2,909 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Finland 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 2885 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 441 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 403 14%
Student > Bachelor 325 11%
Researcher 177 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 131 5%
Other 417 14%
Unknown 1015 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 670 23%
Business, Management and Accounting 358 12%
Computer Science 204 7%
Arts and Humanities 166 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 75 3%
Other 348 12%
Unknown 1088 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 603. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 August 2026.
All research outputs
#47,847
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Technology
#1
of 255 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#368
of 297,325 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Technology
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 255 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them