Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated?

Couldry, Nick ORCID: 0000-0001-8233-3287 and Mejias, Ulises (2019) Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated? Internet Policy Review, 8 (2).

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://policyreview.info/
Additional Information:	© 2019 The Authors
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2019 09:33
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2025 21:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101339

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