Data Grab
Autor Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldryen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 feb 2024
In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from countries around the world. It promised to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It stole from native populations and made them sign contracts they didn¿t understand. It took resources just because they were there.
Colonialism has not disappeared ¿ it has taken on a new form.
In the new world order, data is the new oil. Big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources ¿ our data ¿ exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us. Every time we unthinkingly click `Accept¿ on Terms and Conditions, we allow our most personal information to kept indefinitely, repackaged by big Tech companies to control and exploit us for their own profit.
In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers ¿ and founders of the concept of data colonialism ¿ reveal how history can help us both to understand the emerging future and to fight back.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780753560211
ISBN-10: 0753560216
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 150 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția W H Allen
ISBN-10: 0753560216
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 150 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția W H Allen
Notă biografică
Ulises A. Mejias is professor of communication studies at the State University of New York at Oswego. Nick Couldry is professor of media, communications, and social theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Together, they are the coauthors of The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
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 76
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 (aka Data Extraction as Convenience)
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
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 76
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 (aka Data Extraction as Convenience)
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
Recenzii
“ . . . The authors dramatically point out the powerlessness and other negative consequences of people unwittingly giving up their personal data to large corporations. . . . Going beyond description, their analysis outlines individual and collective tools to rectify the situation. The discussion gives meaning to fears about artificial intelligence and has the potential to guide policymakers as they come to grips with the existence of Big Data.”
“Drawing on the chilling lessons of historical colonialism, Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back highlights the exploitative role Big Tech plays in colonizing and capitalizing on human experiences through the continuous extraction of data by digital means. The book emphasizes that the consequences of this colonial-like undertaking are diffused in all levels of society but are most profound in previously affected areas such as the Global South. To this end, Mejias and Couldry voice the struggles and efforts of people who fight to decolonize data and question the future that is in store if human freedom and autonomy are lost. . . . Moreover, the format of the book makes it an accessible and thorough read for anyone who is concerned by the injustices amplified by automated systems of data extraction—workers, activists, indigenous and marginalized communities, civil servants, those in local or national governments, or students.”
“I wish that Data Grab was required reading when I was a graduate student working in the field of AI. Perspectives like these are crucial if we are to break the colonial paradigm that pervades computing disciplines.”
“In this essential and original work, Mejias and Couldry lay out a powerful and persuasive analysis of the logical continuity between modern colonialism and the extraction of data by Big Tech and its platforms. Their call to resist data colonialism could not be more urgent or more timely.”
“Mejias and Couldry have long been at the forefront of revealing the hidden power structures at play in our data-fueled digital era. With their new book Data Grab, they once again deliver their much-needed incisive analysis. They gift us with the vocabulary to understand—and thus resist—the extractive forces turning our bodies and lives into objects of datafication. Their words arrive right on time as we begin to navigate the latest wave of artificial intelligence.”
“Data Grab offers a fascinating and accessible exploration of how our colonial history drives today’s data landscape. It not only puts current data injustices and cruelties into context, it charts a path for how we might resist.”
“Data Grab is a remarkable text; moving far beyond disabling alarmism or rhetoric that overly catastrophizes the world of Big Tech, it helps us understand the historical and ongoing relations of power and extraction that have now proceeded to the realm of data, as a new raw material that supports neocolonial interests and amplifies inequalities. Far from merely tracing these important connections, Mejias and Couldry place us on a path to recognize ongoing patterns and how to resist and challenge them.”
“This elegant, lucid work distills the common themes linking data colonialism to previous forms of colonialism, while also provocatively cataloguing differences. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the political economy of Big Tech, Big Data, Big Compute, and (the coming) Big AI.”
“Mejias and Couldry provide a terrifying and well researched account of how our personal data are being extracted and exploited for corporate profit. This data grab concentrates wealth and power in the Global North, encages us all in consumer bubbles, and erodes our privacy. More than a compelling read, Data Grab is also a call to arms for how we can reclaim our humanity and resist becoming ground up as grist for the data mills.”
“As in their previous work, Mejias and Couldry show how important it is to take the perspective of the colonized, not the colonizer, in explaining how the digital world is governed. Data Grab offers important insights into how we should analyze power and counter-power in terms of data control. I particularly recommend this book for providing examples of local and vocal initiatives across various continents. A true eye-opener.”
“A blistering, vital exposure of the predatory world of data colonialism. In this vivid and passionately written book, Mejias and Couldry urge us to wake up to the invasive and extractive world of today’s Big Tech.”
“A brilliant account both of colonialism and Big Tech, and a bold and provocative argument that the latter is a version of the former because of the way it dispossesses people of what should be theirs: data about their lives. It is furiously precise about the crimes of the European colonial system, and illuminating on how opaque and unaccountable tech industries shape our world.”