Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated?
Humanity is currently undergoing a large-scale social, economic and legal transformation based on the massive appropriation of social life through data extraction. This quantification of the social represents a new colonial move. While the modes, intensities, scales and contexts of dispossession hav...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Internet Policy Review |
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| Online Access: | https://policyreview.info/node/1411 |
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| Summary: | Humanity is currently undergoing a large-scale social, economic and legal transformation based on the massive appropriation of social life through data extraction. This quantification of the social represents a new colonial move. While the modes, intensities, scales and contexts of dispossession have changed, the underlying drive of today’s data colonialism remains the same: to acquire “territory” and resources from which economic value can be extracted by capital. The injustices embedded in this system need to be made “liveable” through a new legal and regulatory order. |
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| ISSN: | 2197-6775 |