Data colonialism’s extractive logic predates social media by decades in globalized industrial capitalism.

Evidence

Although the site of data colonialism that we most often notice is the social quantification sector, and particularly the personal data extraction practiced by social media platforms, the basic extractive principles underlying data colonialism have been gestating in the business methods of modern capitalism for three decades. … In this general context, the information infrastructures emerged that enabled people and processes to be connected to each other under conditions that facilitate data extraction. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 48

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines data colonialism as the mature form of extractive principles already present in capitalist globalization, not a new phenomenon.
• XREF: Chronologically precedes or parallels the reader’s data-colonialism-as-rival-frame project; connects to their attention/surveillance school corpus. — connects to: Data colonialism completes capitalism’s shift from extracting nature to extracting social life. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 168; Data extraction principles predate social media by decades in globalized capitalism — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 48; Data extraction extends capitalism’s exploitation to all human life, echoing colonial raw-material logic — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 42 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Data extraction principles predate social media by decades in globalized capitalism #corroborates (1.00) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 48
• Data extraction extends capitalism’s exploitation to all human life, echoing colonial raw-material logic #corroborates (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 42