Cybersecurity Awareness Among University Students: A Structured Narrative Review of Recent Empirical Evidence

Abstract

This research paper explores the representation of digital control through smart spaces in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist and Cosmopolis from the perspectives of Jannice Kall and Shoshana Zuboff. The selected novels differ in their settings, human behavior, and narrative structure; however, they share similar capital control, technological intervention, and human subjectivity. This paper examines how digitized spaces reorganize human agency, identity, embodiment, and perception while exposing the economic structures underlying this digital culture. The isolated coastal house in The Body Artist becomes a space of uncertain personal identity, temporal instability, and altered perception. The novel does not explicitly depict a fully developed smart environment; its treatment of spatial isolation, unstable subjectivity, and mediated communication gives an empirical basis to examine digital control in the characters’ experience. On the other hand, digital information, technological infrastructures, financial networks, and surveillance dominate the urban environment of Cosmopolis. Eric Packer’s technologically advanced limousine functions as an automobile through which Packer mediates his relationship with digital and financial markets. This shows how the intervention of digital capitalism makes urban space into an instrument of social differentiation, surveillance, and economic calculation.