Data extraction by platforms is far broader than the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Evidence
But the scale and scope of data colonialism is much wider than the malfeasance of a few overweening data marketers and their in-house psychologists. It extends much wider even than Facebook’s normal practices of data extraction and data licensing that the scandal opened to view. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 60
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed only an antechamber of platform data mining — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 61; Internet-era data extraction far exceeds pre-internet social data sources — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 420; Cambridge Analytica’s actual data efficacy was oversold but its scandal catalyzed real awareness (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Internet-era data extraction far exceeds pre-internet social data sources
#corroborates(0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 420 - Contemporary platform scandals obscure the deeper question of data appropriation for capitalism
#corroborates(0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 40 - A few firms vertically dominate every layer of the data extraction pipeline
#expands(0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 176 - Cambridge Analytica merely repurposed routine surveillance capitalist machinery toward politics
#corroborates(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 873 - Cambridge Analytica’s actual data efficacy was oversold but its scandal catalyzed real awareness
#qualifies(0.75) - Data extraction principles predate social media by decades in globalized capitalism
#expands(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 48 - Digital platforms hijack life into data whose insights are sold back to us
#expands(0.75) - A 2016 encounter with Aleksandr Kogan foreshadowed the Cambridge Analytica scandal
#exemplifies(0.70) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 473