Data extraction functions like colonial resource appropriation despite different modes

Evidence

By tracing continuities from colonialism’s historical appropriation of vast territories, such as contemporary Brazil, all the way to data’s role in contemporary life, we suggest that although the modes, intensities, scales, and contexts of today’s dispossession are distinctive, the underlying function remains the same as under historical colonialism: to acquire large-scale resources from which economic value can be extracted. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 27

Categorization

• XREF: The core definitional move of the data colonialism frame; connects to my interest in rival schools vs. attention/surveillance paradigms. — connects to: Colonial extraction logics are structurally recapitulated in contemporary data platforms — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 346; Platform data extraction continues historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 398; Data colonial extraction persists by converting data relations into durable social relations — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 84 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Platform data extraction continues historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation #corroborates (0.95) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 398
• Colonial extraction logics are structurally recapitulated in contemporary data platforms #corroborates (0.92) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 346
• The 4X framework exposes continuity between historical and data colonialism #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 274
• Data colonial extraction persists by converting data relations into durable social relations #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 84
• Data colonialism replaces cheap resources with cheap social data as its raw material #expands (0.78) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 579