Resisting data colonialism: a practical intervention

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Datafication

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INTRODUCTION. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH DATA EXTRACTION

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not only is colonialism still continuing, but that right now it is morphing into its most powerful version yet. We call this data colonialism.

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Today what is being seized is the social life of human beings.

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FRAMEWORK FOR RESISTANCE

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CHAPTER 1. DATA COLONIALISM IS NOT A METAPHOR: REMEMBERING COLONIALISM AND WHY IT MATTERS IN THE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM

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Characteristics of Colonialism

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Authority: The colonial powers maintain and foster unequal political relationships

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Economy: A significant unequal global distribution of the benefits from resource extraction

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Gender/Sexuality: Women were objectified and seen as a medium for reproduction. Women were displaced from positions of power

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Knowledge and subjectivity: the enforcement of European epistemic ideologies

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The Matrix of Power and Digital Technologies

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data colonialism does not intend to disregard the violence of colonialism in history as an epistemic concept, but it aims to reflect the methods, practices, and oppressions that have been transferred and evolved into digital technologies.

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Authority and digital tech: Digital technologies have increased the world’s securitization

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crime has also found a new place of growth in the dark web of the internet,

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‘visions of democratization and popular empowerment via the [N]et are dangerous; whatever the gains, they are overwhelmingly overshadowed and more than nullified by the losses.

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Economy and digital tech: The enormous economic power private tech companies have over digital technologies signifies that few people from certain regions and iden- tities are responsible for most of the infrastructure and policies regarding digital tech.

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these structures are protected by domestic and international legal frameworks (e.g. intellectual property rights), which prevent small economies from adopting policies in favor of local goods and services

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Gender/Sexuality and digital tech: The utopia that digital technologies were neutral regarding gender, race, class, religion, language, and other identity categories has been remarkably disproven

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Knowledge and digital tech: The original utopian vision that the internet (especially Web 2.0) was an open space for “everyone” to share their knowledge and be heard became over- whelmingly challenged through the conception and development of social media.

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CHAPTER 2. INTERSECTIONS OF DATA POWER: UNMASKING THE NEXUS OF DATA COLONIALISM AND DIGITAL RACIAL CAPITALISM

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Looking Back: Coloniality of Power

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Racial Capitalism

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Digital Racial Capitalism

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Mbembe articulates how computational capitalism's molecular deployment of race through the identification of biological differences has taken a techno-genomic turn, whereas data and the digital are being utilized to demarcate further human variation beyond the phenotypical.

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CHAPTER 3. SCIENCE AND COLONIALISM: THE VIOLENCE OF ABSTRACTION

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suggested that communication was a general activity that could belong to humans, but also across different animals and machines.

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Data colonialism and the automation of classification

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Data as quantified, biased, conservative interpretation of the research object

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The idea that data can be a brute univocal representation of facts, without any intermediation, descends from the suggestion that phenomena can be reproduced, and eventually directly created in the form of data without the implication of a representative choice or any specific view.

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The implicit role of context

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Quality plus abstraction produces quantification

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Biases are necessary to the learning process

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If society were a perfect system in which everybody had access to the same opportuni- ties in life, intellectual stimuli, education and wealth, then this approach would face no fundamental objections, but the truth is that the concrete and practical conditions of human beings are not equal or comparably distributed.

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The standardization of interpretations

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The relational and collective approach to knowledge

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CHAPTER 4. DATA COLONIALISM NOW: HARMS AND CONSEQUENCES

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CHAPTER 5. COLONIALITY AS AN ATTEMPT TO ERASE OTHER WAYS OF LIVING AND FORMS OF RELATING TO OUR BODIES AND TERRITORIES

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STORIES OF RESISTANCE

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STORY 1. ‘WE ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE’: RESISTANCE AGAINST MINING IN ACACOYAGUA, CHIAPAS

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STORY 2. NO TO THE DATA CENTER! RESISTANCE AND ARTIVISM AGAINST GOOGLE IN CERRILLOS

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STORY 3. RESISTANCE STORYTELLING: ANTI-SURVEILLANCE CAMPAIGN IN RECIFE, BRAZIL

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STORY 4. FUTURING DATA FOR ECO-SOCIAL HEALTH

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STORY 5. WHEN WORKERS EXPLOIT THE PLATFORMS

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STORY 6. BECOMING A LOSS: ON THE RESOLUTION (OR NOT) OF CONFLICTS IN AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES

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STORY 7. RESISTING DATA COLONIALISM AND DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE IN A MIDWESTERN CLASSROOM: EXPLORING COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ALTERNATIVES TO AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS

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STORY 8. RESISTING PLATFORM SCAMS IN BRAZIL

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STORY 9. BETWEEN CLEANING APPS AND THE BORDER: ROXY'S STORY FOR DOMESTIC CODE IN THE FLESH

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A CALL TO ACTION

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RESISTING DATA COLONIALISM: WHAT LIES AHEAD

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10 WAYS TO RESIST DATA COLONIALISM

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LEXICON OF RESISTANCE

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