Modern logistics anchored data-extraction infrastructure decades before social media

Evidence

Take an example far from social media: the discipline of logistics. The goal of logistics is to use continuously connected data flows to organize all aspects of production across space and time within global commodity chains. It was enabled, decades before social media, by software inventions such as the relational databases that help businesses find patterns in huge data flows across diverse sources and locations. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 49

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Data extraction principles predate social media by decades in globalized capitalism — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 48; Data-driven logistics extend scientific management to the whole social domain, not just factories — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 103; Internet-era data extraction far exceeds pre-internet social data sources — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 420 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Logistics infrastructure forms the organizational core of contemporary data colonialism #corroborates (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 161
• Data-driven logistics extend scientific management to the whole social domain, not just factories #corroborates (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 103
• Internet-era data extraction far exceeds pre-internet social data sources #qualifies (0.78) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 420
• Large social platforms function as aggregators of niche tracking services #qualifies (0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 542