Data-driven governance converts democratic dialogue into a corporate-owned probability spectrum
Evidence
Axon’s triumphal rise is just a small part of the increasing datafication of the US law-and-order sector, which is, in turn, just part of the wider transformation of social governance and individual self-governance in the United States and many other nations. Governed this way, the social world stops being a space of dialogue and debate, let alone of democratic change, and becomes what the data industry calls a propensity and probability spectrum, governed by knowledges that are largely in corporate hands. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 645
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘propensity and probability spectrum’ framing connects to the surveillance/preemption literature and to statistical risk scoring in criminal justice; also resonates with the reader’s attention/platform corpus on predictive personalization. — connects to: Open data transforms transparency into a mechanism for citizen participation in democracy. — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 1069; Governance by total data transfers social trust to an undefined ruling ‘we’ — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1370; Corporate data-as-asset rhetoric reframes untapped user data as a trillion-dollar revenue source — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 506 (+3 more)
- DEFINE: Names the contested definitional claim that data colonialism replaces democratic space with corporate-governed predictive spectrums.
Broader Connections
- Open data transforms transparency into a mechanism for citizen participation in democracy.
#contradicts(0.80) — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 1069 - Governance by total data transfers social trust to an undefined ruling ‘we’
#expands(0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1370 - Corporate data-as-asset rhetoric reframes untapped user data as a trillion-dollar revenue source
#expands(0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 506 - Unaccountable abstract social knowledge functionally serves data-colonialist capitalism.
#expands(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 453 - Computational governance’s metric requirements force a mimicry-based view of humanity.
#corroborates(0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1392