A liberatory universalism opposes Big Data’s totalizing reduction of life to data
Evidence
This, incidentally, is what distinguishes the universalizing involved in our argument from the universalizing that colonialisms have helped shape, indeed, the universalizing that underlies the whole vision of Big Data. Decolonizing data means speaking now from the position of data’s colonized and imagining a common future for humanity beyond the contemporary project to reduce human life to the inputs and outputs of data processing. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 637
Categorization
- XREF: Relevant to mapping the rival frame: the colonialism critique differentiates itself from surveillance/attention schools partly by claiming a defensible universalism rather than only opposition to extraction. — connects to: Data appropriation threatens the minimal space of the self — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 75; Resisting data colonialism requires an ecology-of-life frame, not legal regulation — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 567; Big data and AI outperform human judgment in high-stakes decisions. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 1171 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Resisting data colonialism requires an ecology-of-life frame, not legal regulation
#corroborates(0.78) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 567 - Data appropriation threatens the minimal space of the self
#qualifies(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 75 - Big data and AI outperform human judgment in high-stakes decisions.
#contradicts(0.72) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1171