Data extraction is historically unprecedented yet clarifies through colonial-capitalist continuity.
Evidence
Today’s attempt to extract economic value from human lives through data has a systematic integration and depth that we argue is, in some respects, without historical precedent. But we see its features most clearly through their continuity with past relations between colonialism and capitalism. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 33
Categorization
- XREF: The claimed ‘continuity with past relations between colonialism and capitalism’ is the book’s defining frame and the natural point of comparison to the attention/surveillance school. — connects to: 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; Data colonialism requires transforming society itself, not just extracting value — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 365; Data colonialism extracts human life as data for profit through data relations. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 32 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Data extraction extends capitalism’s exploitation to all human life, echoing colonial raw-material logic
#expands(0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 42 - Data colonialism extracts human life as data for profit through data relations.
#expands(0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 32 - Data colonialism extracts ever more layers of human life as raw material
#expands(0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 66 - Data extraction principles predate social media by decades in globalized capitalism
#contradicts(0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 48 - Data colonialism requires transforming society itself, not just extracting value
#expands(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 365