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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-07af46d8581741e980cdf7b3cfef6b562025-08-20T02:46:43ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752019-06-018210.14763/2019.2.1411Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated?Nick Couldry0Ulises Mejias1London School of Economics & Political ScienceState University of New York at OswegoHumanity 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.https://policyreview.info/node/1411Data relationsCapitalismColonialismAppropriation |
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| title | Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated? |
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