Platforms reconfigure human life to continuously produce extractable data streams.

Evidence

What if comparable processes for abstracting human life are today enabling new, extended forms of economic extraction? … The world of internet-based connection is a world in which new types of corporate power, with privileged access to data streams extracted from the flow of life, can activate a metaphorical button—an apparatus of extraction, whether platform, app, or AI system—that reconfigures human life so that it contributes continuously to the collection of data and thereby, potentially, to the generation of profit. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 45

Categorization

• QUESTION: The phrase ‘extended forms of economic extraction’ is posed as an open question in the source chapter; worth tracing how the rest of the book answers it for the rival-school critique.
• XREF: connects to: Platform data extraction operates as a continuous cache-gathering of social life. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 411; Billions now organize personal lives around data-dependent platform infrastructures — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 585; Digital platforms hijack life into data whose insights are sold back to us (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Platform data extraction operates as a continuous cache-gathering of social life. #corroborates (0.95) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 411
• Digital platforms hijack life into data whose insights are sold back to us #corroborates (0.90)
• Refashioning humans as data-open inforgs makes them continuously available for external modulation. #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 479
• Human life as organized through data is the new direct input of capitalism #corroborates (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 160
• Platforms extract behavioral surplus from human activity to predict and modify it. #corroborates (0.85) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 809
• Billions now organize personal lives around data-dependent platform infrastructures #qualifies (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 585
• Continuous connection converts lived activity into machine-readable data and a branded, conditional ‘truth’. #corroborates (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 401
• Data extraction annexes life processes beyond productive labor #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 143
• Platforms are the first business model with data extraction built into their core DNA #corroborates (0.75) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 76