Datafied subjects may progressively unlearn the norms of self-autonomy.

Evidence

The risk is clear, however: that since we have no choice but to go on acting in a world that undermines the self’s autonomy, one consequence is that we may progressively unlearn the norms associated with it. As the second quotation at the beginning of the chapter head suggests, data colonialism’s subjects may come to unlearn freedom in time. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 525

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that we can ‘unlearn freedom’ via habituation into datafying systems is a dense, paradigm-level claim about norm erosion that resists summary.
• XREF: connects to: Datafication may disrupt autonomy at the level of self-boundedness itself — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 500; Data extraction infrastructures deform the self that autonomy and freedom depend on — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 148; Data colonialism may attack the very boundaries of the self. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 463 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Datafication may disrupt autonomy at the level of self-boundedness itself #corroborates (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 500
• Data extraction infrastructures deform the self that autonomy and freedom depend on #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 148
• Data colonialism may attack the very boundaries of the self. #corroborates (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 463
• Quantified-self data systems collapse the reflexive space in which freedom operates #corroborates (0.78) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 520
• Data mining actively reshapes and changes human minds #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1680