data capitalism

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.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}

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.