Indigenous digital studies offer a grounded normativity that empowers refusal of data systems.

Evidence

This and similar endeavors are being explored by artists, scholars, and activists from within emerging fields such as postcolonial digital humanities and indigenous digital studies. Such work can provide a window onto a different space, what First Nations writer and academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson calls a “productive place of refusal.” For Simpson, a place of refusal is productive if it generates a “grounded normativity,” a place from where we feel entitled and empowered in a sustainable way to say no to what we are told is “necessary” and yes to what for now seems impossible. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 593

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Simpson’s ‘productive place of refusal’ and ‘grounded normativity’ — both genuinely useful concepts for critical platform studies.
• XREF: The grounded refusal framing usefully contrasts with the attention/surveillance schools’ individualist solutions like digital detox. Xref to those approaches. — connects to: Indigenous frameworks offer alternatives to data-colonial modes of being — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 1231; Resisting data colonialism requires an ecology-of-life frame, not legal regulation — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 567; Individual resistance acts against data colonialism must be reframed as collective projects — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 634 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Indigenous frameworks offer alternatives to data-colonial modes of being #corroborates (0.92) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1231
• Individual resistance acts against data colonialism must be reframed as collective projects #expands (0.78) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 634
• Resisting data colonialism requires an ecology-of-life frame, not legal regulation #complicates (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 567
• Rejecting data fundamentalism is central to decolonizing social knowledge #expands (0.72) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 639