Data colonialism, like historical colonialism, generates legitimating ideologies.

Evidence

Such profound shifts in how value is extracted, social relations are organized, and economic power is distributed require narratives that reframe them in more acceptable terms. This is another aspect in which today’s developments bear comparison with historical colonialism. Data colonialism is producing its own new ideologies. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 94

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels ideological-justification patterns seen in historical-colonialism scholarship (e.g., ‘civilizing mission’ etc.) and in media/culture legitimating myth narratives. — connects to: The inevitability of datafication is itself a myth of data colonialism — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 574
• SEED: Angle: comparing the legitimating ideologies of data colonialism to those of historical colonial enterprises as a unified taxonomy.

Broader Connections

• The inevitability of datafication is itself a myth of data colonialism #exemplifies (0.88) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 574