Data processes create a new injustice that is simultaneously social and cognitive.
Evidence
Here, as Boaventura de Sousa Santos has noted, questions of “global social injustice” become “intimately linked” with questions of “global cognitive injustice.” Capitalism’s grip on the world, through the mechanism of connection, creates a new modality of injustice, indissolubly both social and cognitive, that is derived from data processes. Data colonialism’s true violence is to make human beings the objects of external control through data, together with everything that, until now, has passed for their lives’ interior. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 609
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘global cognitive injustice’ and the dual nature of data-colonial injustice as both social and cognitive.
- XREF: Connects to Sen and de Sousa Santos’s broader decolonial/epistemological justice literature the reader already encounters in this chapter. — connects to: Datafied systems collapse social double contingency into single contingency. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 1187; 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; Data mining actively reshapes and changes human minds — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1680 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Data mining actively reshapes and changes human minds
#expands(0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1680 - Datafied systems collapse social double contingency into single contingency.
#expands(0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1187 - Data colonialism extracts human life as data for profit through data relations.
#expands(0.78) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 32 - Data colonialism is an interlocking six-force system, not just platforms
#expands(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 582