Billions now organize personal lives around data-dependent platform infrastructures

Evidence

But confronting data colonialism as a whole is seriously inconvenient. That is because data colonialism’s model for organizing things underlies countless business models and everyday resources. That is why, as Mark Andreessen inadvertently implied (in the chapter’s opening quote), the point of opposing colonialism was never immediate economic success. Worse, over the past two decades, billions of people have started to organize much of their personal lives around the infrastructures of digital platforms and other services that depend, or seem to depend, on seamless flows of data. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 585

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the lock-in/dependency problem the attention/surveillance school also documents, giving the reader common ground for the comparative frame. — connects to: Platforms reconfigure human life to continuously produce extractable data streams. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 45; Digital platforms hijack life into data whose insights are sold back to us; Platform data extraction operates as a continuous cache-gathering of social life. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 411 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Platform data extraction operates as a continuous cache-gathering of social life. #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 411
• Human life as organized through data is the new direct input of capitalism #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 160
• Digital platforms hijack life into data whose insights are sold back to us #qualifies (0.80)
• The cloud operates as an episteme that pre-organizes social life for datafication #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 173
• Cloud capital shatters individuals into manipulable fragments of data #expands (0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 660