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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.

➡️ doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

'The cloud' is part of the narrative strategy of Big Tech to make hidden their practice of unlimited and unsustainable tech extractivism of water, power, data, cobalt, lithium etc. Latin American decolonial critiques of #DataColonialism
#YourCloudIsMyRiver #podcast #DigitalRights #AnotherTechnologyIsPossible
pca.st/episode/8b9826a1-9008-4

Pocket CastsData colonialism and its discontents - The Anti-DystopiansA conversation with Paola Ricurate and Sebastián Leheude

"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

techwontsave.us/episode/246_th

Tech Won't Save UsThe Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry - Tech Won’t Save UsA left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.

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."

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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.”

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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.”

#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?”" lse.ac.uk/research/research-fo

www.lse.ac.ukAre we giving away too much online? | LSE ResearchDo we really know how much data we’re giving away and how it’s being used? A new book by Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias explores the murky world of big tech and how we can fight back.