Datafication erases the prior boundary between inner life and external forces

Evidence

In doing so, ever more of life is required to be continuously monitored and surveilled, removing the boundaries that previously existed between internal life and external forces. β€” Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 71

Categorization

  • XREF: Contrasts with surveillance-school accounts that keep an internal/external boundary and frame monitoring as coercive intrusion rather than ontological reconstruction. β€” connects to: Speculative technologies erode boundaries between previously separate realms of life β€” Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 212; Datafication may disrupt autonomy at the level of self-boundedness itself β€” Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 500; Continuous data appropriation erases the boundary separating self from economic power β€” Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 75

Broader Connections