Unaccountable abstract social knowledge functionally serves data-colonialist capitalism.

Evidence

There is a bigger danger too. If lack of accountability to context is becoming a principle of the new social knowledge, then this serves data colonialism (the mutual implication of human life and digital technology for capitalism) rather well. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 453

Categorization

• DEFINE: Offers the book’s working definition of data colonialism as the mutual implication of human life and digital tech for capitalism.
• XREF: Core definitional claim connecting proxy logic to colonial extraction — maps directly onto the reading purpose’s contested-definition need. — connects to: Data colonialism fuses economic and cognitive power in an order as durable as capitalism — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 30; Sharing’s semantic unboundedness masks the corporate capture of data — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 514; Data-colonial knowledge regimes are self-validating through world-reconfiguration rather than testing. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 620 (+6 more)