#datacolonialism — Public Fediverse posts
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Data is a new frontier of colonisation. No anthropologist should engage with #LLM |s in their research and their teaching. Those who do, continue a dark chapter of our discipline - and they are not even writing it themselves, but have machines do it for them! #datacolonialism #AI
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Data is a new frontier of colonisation. No anthropologist should engage with #LLM |s in their research and their teaching. Those who do, continue a dark chapter of our discipline - and they are not even writing it themselves, but have machines do it for them! #datacolonialism #AI
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#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
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#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
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Yesterday colonialism used maps; today algorithms occupy the human body. Technocolonialism transforms flesh into data fields, relentlessly mining attention and desire, subtly steering behavior. The body loses political agency and autonomy, becoming a profitable marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
#AntiHarari, #Technocolonialism, #Philosophy, #Transhumanism, #Introduction, #BodyTerritory, #DigitalSovereignty, #DataColonialism -
Yesterday colonialism used maps; today algorithms occupy the human body. Technocolonialism transforms flesh into data fields, relentlessly mining attention and desire, subtly steering behavior. The body loses political agency and autonomy, becoming a profitable marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
#AntiHarari, #Technocolonialism, #Philosophy, #Transhumanism, #Introduction, #BodyTerritory, #DigitalSovereignty, #DataColonialism -
In the thirteenth century, Aquinas wrote that story; he sanctified the ownership of land and the serf’s body by the lord as “divine order.” In the twenty‑first century, Yuval Noah Harari takes on the same task. Only this time, God gives way to Data, and divine order to the Algorithm.
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, -
"Colossus Failure": Elon Musk's Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/memphis_xai_data_center_pollution_keshaun #ToxicElonMusk #AI #DataColonialism #Memphis #RegulateTech #pollution #racism #environment
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"Colossus Failure": Elon Musk's Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/memphis_xai_data_center_pollution_keshaun #ToxicElonMusk #AI #DataColonialism #Memphis #RegulateTech #pollution #racism #environment
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"Data Colonialism": Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers #Indigenous #AI #DataColonialism #DataCenters #colonialism #environment
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"Data Colonialism": Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers #Indigenous #AI #DataColonialism #DataCenters #colonialism #environment
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'#DataColonialism': Native Communities Fight #AI #DataCenters on #IndigenousLand
#DemocracyNow, April 22, 2026
"The artificial intelligence industry’s #DataCenter boom is the latest chapter in a long history of #EnvironmentalRacism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist #KrystalTwoBulls, the executive director of #HonorTheEarth, an Indigenous-led #EnvironmentalJustice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects on tribal and rural lands. We speak to Two Bulls about the myriad impacts of what she calls a 'modern-day iteration' of '#SettlerColonialism,' including #NoisePollution, #cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion, #EnergyGrid overload and even '#EcologicalCollapse.' As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, Two Bulls says, 'We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.' "
Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers#AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #AISucks #AIDataCenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistAI
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'#DataColonialism': Native Communities Fight #AI #DataCenters on #IndigenousLand
#DemocracyNow, April 22, 2026
"The artificial intelligence industry’s #DataCenter boom is the latest chapter in a long history of #EnvironmentalRacism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist #KrystalTwoBulls, the executive director of #HonorTheEarth, an Indigenous-led #EnvironmentalJustice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects on tribal and rural lands. We speak to Two Bulls about the myriad impacts of what she calls a 'modern-day iteration' of '#SettlerColonialism,' including #NoisePollution, #cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion, #EnergyGrid overload and even '#EcologicalCollapse.' As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, Two Bulls says, 'We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.' "
Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers#AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #AISucks #AIDataCenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistAI
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OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982
#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
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OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982
#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
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"This process of extracting and exploiting our data, generated by everyday interactions with services mostly provided by US #bigtech companies , has been called #datacolonialism. In #Brazil, the numbers are significant: approximately 134 million active #Instagram users, 160 million on #WhatsApp , and 140 million daily messages sent via #ChatGPT—we are the 3rd country that uses this tool the most in the world in 2025, according to OpenAI data."
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"This process of extracting and exploiting our data, generated by everyday interactions with services mostly provided by US #bigtech companies , has been called #datacolonialism. In #Brazil, the numbers are significant: approximately 134 million active #Instagram users, 160 million on #WhatsApp , and 140 million daily messages sent via #ChatGPT—we are the 3rd country that uses this tool the most in the world in 2025, according to OpenAI data."
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If you are in the UK and fancy a day or two in the countryside, I will be speaking on #datacolonialism at the ALSO festival at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, on Saturday July 12 morning. Details here: https://www.also-festival.com/entities/also-festival/content/also-ideas
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If you are in the UK and fancy a day or two in the countryside, I will be speaking on #datacolonialism at the ALSO festival at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, on Saturday July 12 morning. Details here: https://www.also-festival.com/entities/also-festival/content/also-ideas
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In her new book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao insists that AI companies don’t have to choose between exploiting workers and chasing growth.
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📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.
➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6
#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
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📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.
➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6
#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
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This podcast is not easy, and it is relatively long, but it digs deeply in the question of #datacolonialism #data #colonialism #bigtech #capitalism
https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/colonialism-with-ulises-a-mejias-and-nick-couldry
It makes the link between how we as a society have to function (communicate, work, play, ...) by the rules and the terms of the big tech corporations. Without any form of control from our side, this is a form of "colonialism", they argue, especially since our use of their platforms generates them money and influence.
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I'm looking for accessible resources such as podcasts, short articles, interviews, visuals, infographics, memes, ... to help me convince my friends to leave #meta #whatsapp #facebook #instagram etc. because of the issues around #contentmoderation #datacolonialism #ecology #sustainability #privacy #transrights #lgbtq #lgbtqia #safety etc. and to migrate to #signal #mastodon #pixelfed
What about things like:
- Tech won't save us
- The data fix
- 404 media
- ...Thanks!
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I'm looking for accessible resources such as podcasts, short articles, interviews, visuals, infographics, memes, ... to help me convince my friends to leave #meta #whatsapp #facebook #instagram etc. because of the issues around #contentmoderation #datacolonialism #ecology #sustainability #privacy #transrights #lgbtq #lgbtqia #safety etc. and to migrate to #signal #mastodon #pixelfed
What about things like:
- Tech won't save us
- The data fix
- 404 media
- ...Thanks!
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"If you're wanting to take something from someone you have no social relations with, there are only two options; brutal violence, and, lying, and [colonisers] use both."
#NickCouldry, 2024, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry
#podcasts #TheNation #TechWontSaveUs #ParisMarx #Colonialism #DataColonialism #DataGrab
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"If you're wanting to take something from someone you have no social relations with, there are only two options; brutal violence, and, lying, and [colonisers] use both."
#NickCouldry, 2024, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry
#podcasts #TheNation #TechWontSaveUs #ParisMarx #Colonialism #DataColonialism #DataGrab
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Can #AI help #Africa (#GlobalSouth) close the development gap?
#DigitalJustice #AI4SI #DataDivide #Poverty #DataColonialism via @ft
https://www.ft.com/content/bdab80fe-e800-4c1c-926d-a6faa750cd57
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Can #AI help #Africa (#GlobalSouth) close the development gap?
#DigitalJustice #AI4SI #DataDivide #Poverty #DataColonialism via @ft
https://www.ft.com/content/bdab80fe-e800-4c1c-926d-a6faa750cd57
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'behind the sleek facade of our digital world lies a hidden workforce that bears immense emotional burdens, so we don’t have to. Their experiences raise urgent questions about the ethical implications of data work and the human cost of maintaining our digital infrastructure.'
https://www.noemamag.com/the-human-cost-of-our-ai-driven-future/
Longread, do take your time!
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'behind the sleek facade of our digital world lies a hidden workforce that bears immense emotional burdens, so we don’t have to. Their experiences raise urgent questions about the ethical implications of data work and the human cost of maintaining our digital infrastructure.'
https://www.noemamag.com/the-human-cost-of-our-ai-driven-future/
Longread, do take your time!
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Must watch video! Maybe preaching for the choir here, so re-share with people still in the corporate data mining silo's! :share:
Andrewism: *How Big Tech Steals Our Lives*
"Welcome to the world of data colonialism, where the continuous extraction of data from our lives generates massive wealth for the few and suffering for the many on a global scale."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gmX61zJLjcs
#mustWatch #colonialism #slavery #data #dataColonialism #decolonization #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #X #Twitter #Apple #Microsoft #Amazon #socialMedia #capitalism #anarchism
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Must watch video! Maybe preaching for the choir here, so re-share with people still in the corporate data mining silo's! :share:
Andrewism: *How Big Tech Steals Our Lives*
"Welcome to the world of data colonialism, where the continuous extraction of data from our lives generates massive wealth for the few and suffering for the many on a global scale."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gmX61zJLjcs
#mustWatch #colonialism #slavery #data #dataColonialism #decolonization #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #X #Twitter #Apple #Microsoft #Amazon #socialMedia #capitalism #anarchism
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The New Colonialism of Big Tech - Welcome to the world of data colonialism, where the continuous extraction of data from our lives generates massive wealth for the few and suffering for the many on a global scale. #Andrewism #DataColonialism #BigTech
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The New Colonialism of Big Tech - Welcome to the world of data colonialism, where the continuous extraction of data from our lives generates massive wealth for the few and suffering for the many on a global scale. #Andrewism #DataColonialism #BigTech
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Just recorded a new podcast conversation with Prof Linda Rath about #datacolonialism. If you want to take a listen, here are options:
Web: https://audioboom.com/posts/8559371-nick-couldry-lse
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/249WiiGkPDd0I371Ita0Em
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/nick-couldry-lse/id1509302316?i=1000666140722
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Just recorded a new podcast conversation with Prof Linda Rath about #datacolonialism. If you want to take a listen, here are options:
Web: https://audioboom.com/posts/8559371-nick-couldry-lse
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/249WiiGkPDd0I371Ita0Em
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/nick-couldry-lse/id1509302316?i=1000666140722
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Ulises Mejias and I had great fun recording this podcast recently with Mark Hurst for his Techtonic programme on WFMU radio in New York (aired last night). If the #datacolonialism framework is new to you, this chat might be good place to start . https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=139638&archive=252348&starttime=0:4:52
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Ulises Mejias and I had great fun recording this podcast recently with Mark Hurst for his Techtonic programme on WFMU radio in New York (aired last night). If the #datacolonialism framework is new to you, this chat might be good place to start . https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=139638&archive=252348&starttime=0:4:52
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“The most important tool in this struggle is our imagination. Decolonizing data needs to become a creative and cultural movement. It is true that no colonized society has managed to decisively and permanently undo colonialism. But even when colonial power could not be resisted with the body, it could be resisted with the mind. Collective ingenuity will be our most valuable asset.”
#DataColonialism #ingenuity #imagination #creativity #resistance
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“The most important tool in this struggle is our imagination. Decolonizing data needs to become a creative and cultural movement. It is true that no colonized society has managed to decisively and permanently undo colonialism. But even when colonial power could not be resisted with the body, it could be resisted with the mind. Collective ingenuity will be our most valuable asset.”
#DataColonialism #ingenuity #imagination #creativity #resistance
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“The word ‘colonialism’ is not being used metaphorically here, but to describe a very real emerging social order based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the continuous appropriation of human life through data. #DataColonialism helps us understand today’s transformations of social life as extensions of a long historical arc of dispossession. All of #human #culture becomes the raw material that is fed to a commercial #AI machine from which huge profits are expected.”
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#DataColonialism #Privacy #Surveillance #DataProtection: "When undertaking research for the book, Professors Couldry and Mejias found data was being extracted from every aspect of human life. “We realised the closest parallel was in the colonial land grab that happened around 1500 when Spain and Portugal suddenly realised there was a whole new world they could grab for themselves,” Professor Couldry says.
“It seemed to us this was a good analogy for the serious scale of what’s happening with data and that's when we started developing a framework for data colonialism. We weren't the first people to come up with this term, but we were the first people to see this as not just a metaphor but a new stage in the evolution of colonialism. What if colonialism could evolve? And that a new land grab could be happening right now, right in front of our eyes, through human life being captured in the form of data?”" https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/society/data-colonialism-privacy
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This interview gives a good summary of Ulises Mejias' and my framework of #datacolonialism: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/society/data-colonialism-privacy. For those in the UK, we will be talking more about it in May: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05/202405141830/data
