Critiques of Data Colonialism
Year: 2024
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In this chapter, the authors critically interrogate the concept of data colonialism developed by Couldry and Mejias. Through their different critiques they bring to the table differing perspectives on the adoption of the concept within the field of critical data studies. Some authors offer fundamental critiques of the concept, arguing for scholarship and research that examines colonization as a tangible and pre-existing system of oppression with a violent data legacy that is continued through computation, as well as questioning the ways in which adoption of the concept can flatten our understanding of how data power works differently in the different contexts of Western consumerism and data production labour markets in post-colonial states. Other contributors identify gaps in the existing conceptualization in relation to environmental justice, and understanding the historical roots of colonialism in feudalist societies which also have their own resonances with contemporary datafied societies.
Source: Bristol University Press eBooks
Language: French
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche
OpenAlex ID: W4401807354