Digital natives are actually populations dispossessed by data relations.

Evidence

If we fail to do that, the term digital natives (generations who have always grown up with the internet) starts to take on a more sinister meaning: those whom data relations have dispossessed. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 350

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the ‘digital native’ framing itself function as a legitimating myth that obscures dispossession?
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘the sinister reading of digital natives’ — how a generation’s self-image as natives/naturalized web users doubles as consent to extraction.
• XREF: connects to: 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 colonialism may attack the very boundaries of the self. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 463; Users are more vulnerable to algorithms they know are mindless. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 314

Broader Connections

• 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 may attack the very boundaries of the self. #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 463