Shoshana Zuboff
Scholar, author and social psychologist
Shoshana Zuboff is an American scholar and professor emerita at Harvard Business School. She wrote The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
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American Born 1951
About Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff was born in 1951 and is an American author, social psychologist, philosopher and scholar. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Chicago, and she is professor emerita at Harvard Business School. Her books include In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, and The Support Economy, which she wrote with James Maxmin. Her work has given rise to concepts such as "surveillance capitalism" and "instrumentarian power". The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power brings together central themes of her research: the Digital Revolution, the evolution of capitalism, and the conditions for human development.