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The concluding chapter reviews the key themes as set out in the introduction and in the contributions to this volume. Here, Mascheroni and Holloway revisit the concepts of datafication and surveillance capitalism in order to emphasise critical questions and map out possible trajectories that future research in the field could address and pursue. The discussion of surveillance capitalism emphasises the double positioning of children in the market as both digital consumers and digital labourers. The chapter also makes the argument that the social and political consequences of datafication extend beyond privacy issues to the transformation of the very conditions under which citizenship is enacted.
In accordance with the Italian academic convention, we specify that while the general structure and the conceptual framework of the chapter were designed by the two authors jointly, Giovanna Mascheroni specifically wrote the section Dataveillance and the Future of Citizenship, while Donell Holloway wrote the section Surveillance Capitalism.
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Mascheroni, G., Holloway, D. (2019). Concluding the Internet of Toys. In: Mascheroni, G., Holloway, D. (eds) The Internet of Toys. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10898-4_17
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