Data grab : the new colonialism of big tech and how to fight back /
Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry.
- x, 303 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-289) and index.
Contenidos: Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Landgrab to Data Grab
The Four X’s of Colonialism
Terms and Conditions
Raw Materials
Reading the Present through a Colonial Lens
Your Guide to the Book
1. A New Colonialism
No Capitalism without Colonialism
Data and the Continuation of Colonial Violence by Other Means
The Colonial Roots of AI
The Resilience of Colonialism
We Need Not Be Passive Victims
2. Data Territories
When Society Becomes the Territory
New Data Relations Mean New Power Relations
Data, AI and the Environment
There’s a Data Grab Happening (Very) Near You
Data Territories and the Transformation of Work
Global Inequality, Redux
3. Data’s New Civilising Mission
The Emperor’s New "Civilising" Clothes
Civilising Narrative #1: Everyone Wants an Easier Life
Civilising Narrative #2: This Is How We Connect!
Civilising Narrative #3: AI Is Smarter than Humans
Why Civilisational Stories Work
4. The New Colonial Class
The Social Quantification Sector
The Big Data Harvesters
The Wider Colonial Class
Serving the Algorithmic State
Data’s Lone Adventurers
We the Consumers
5. Voices of Defiance
Colonialism’s Witnesses
No Modernity without Colonialism
Warnings from an Earlier Computer Age
Imagining the Battle to Come
Resources for Resistance?
6. A Playbook for Resistance
Resistance Is Already Here, and Nothing Can Stop It
Radically Reimagining How We Use Data
Introducing the Playbook
Play #1: Working within the System
Play #2: Working against the System
Play #3: Working beyond the System
Conclusion: And If We Don’t Resist?
Notes
Further Reading Suggestions
Index
"In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources--our data--exploiting our labor and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations, and discriminate against us. These companies tell us this is for our own good, to build innovation and develop new technology. But in fact every time we unthinkingly click "Accept" on a set of Terms and Conditions, we allow our most personal information to be kept indefinitely, repackaged by companies to control and exploit us for their own profit. Each chapter of respected technology scholars Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry's compelling book opens with a story of an ordinary person going about their life until they come up against technology taking their data: a migrant trying to reach Europe where drones are patrolling borders, a woman in the Philippines working for a software company that takes screenshots of her monitor, a food delivery driver in a Chinese city racing against an algorithm. All of these people could be us; the story of what tech companies are doing is a global story that is impossible to escape. Mejias and Couldry explain why postindustrial capitalism cannot be understood without colonialism, and why race is a critical factor in who benefits from data colonialism, just as it was for historic colonialism. In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers and founders of the concept of data colonialism reveal how history can help us understand the emerging future--and how we can fight back"--
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Internet industry--Social aspects. Data privacy. Data sovereignty. Corporate power. Information technology--Social aspects. Electronic data processing--Social aspects.