Platform data extraction continues historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation

Evidence

Couldry and Mejias theorize “data colonialism” as a continuation of historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation, now extracted from human experience itself. The book centers Global South perspectives and demands that platform critique attend to long histories of dispossession. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 398

But if colonialism can be understood, among other things, as a process that allows one party to occupy the living space of another and appropriate his resources, overpowering him through a combination of ideological rationalizations and technological means (which include the use of surveillance and dominance), then we propose that we have entered a new phase of colonialism. To say this is not in any way to forget the racist, sexist, exploitative, and Eurocentric legacy of historical colonialism (which, after all, continues to shape the way we relate to each other today, even online). — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 179

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the concept ‘data colonialism’ as appropriation now extracted from human experience.
• XREF: Connects to Zuboff’s surveillance capitalism and decolonial AI scholarship. — connects to: The mode of surplus extraction reveals the hidden foundation of the entire social edifice; AI-generated content can overwrite the living memory of indigenous communities. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1123; International IP harmonization created a new knowledge feudalism — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2192 (+19 more)
• ADDENDUM: Connects to the reader’s interest in rival schools; this is the core definitional construct of the data colonialism frame.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 398; Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 179

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems #complicates (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409