"This process of extracting and exploiting our data, generated by everyday interactions with services mostly provided by US #bigtech companies , has been called #datacolonialism. In #Brazil, the numbers are significant: approximately 134 million active #Instagram users, 160 million on #WhatsApp , and 140 million daily messages sent via #ChatGPT—we are the 3rd country that uses this tool the most in the world in 2025, according to OpenAI data."

https://baixacultura.org/2025/11/07/colonialismo-digital-a-nova-fronteira-da-dependencia-latino-americana/

Affidavit And Public Legal Representation In Opposition To The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Of Electoral Rolls, 2025
https://onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/10/31/affidavit-and-public-legal-representation-in-opposition-to-the-special-intensive-revision-sir-of-electoral-rolls-2025/

#SIR2025, #ElectoralRevision, #VoterRollManipulation, #DeletedVoters, #UniversalFranchise, #ConstitutionBetrayed #CitizenshipCrisis #RightToExist #DataColonialism #AlgorithmicControl, #PeopleBeforePaper, #DigitalDisenfranchisement, #VoteAgainstFascism,, #Bharatiya_Janata_Party. #NDA, #VoteChori. #NOTA, #Partless_Democracy,

#ecofeminism
#stopextractivism
#ceasefire
#technoimperialism
#digital_colonialism
#datacolonialism
#technocolonialism
#ethicaltech
#degrowth
#permacomputing

Techno Colonialism is the next tool to implement an extractivist social order.

#ecofeminism
#stopextractivism
#ceasefire
#technoimperialism
#digital_colonialism
#datacolonialism
#technocolonialism
#ethicaltech
#degrowth
#Permacomputing

The Collapse of Intellectual Subjectivity: Hegemonic State, Digital Discipline, and the Data-Shaped Mind @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5373874
#StateConsolidation #SocialControl #IntellectualSubjectivity #Hegemony #Governmentality #DataColonialism #DecolonialThought #CognitiveJustice

If you are in the UK and fancy a day or two in the countryside, I will be speaking on #datacolonialism at the ALSO festival at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, on Saturday July 12 morning. Details here: https://www.also-festival.com/entities/also-festival/content/also-ideas

If you are in the UK and fancy a day or two in the countryside, I will be speaking on #datacolonialism at the ALSO festival at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, on Saturday July 12 morning. Details here: https://www.also-festival.com/entities/also-festival/content/also-ideas

There is no #Capitalism without #Colonialism- lunch time talk by Ulises Mejias #DataColonialism

📢 Tune in to the next lecture at our lecture series.

⏰ WED May 28, at 2:15 pm
👉 registration: https://u-si.de/kZwhc

The lecture is based on Mejias' co-authored book on ‘data colonialism’ in which he argues that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism.

#CRC2025 #Unstitching #DataColonialism #resistance

In her new book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao insists that AI companies don’t have to choose between exploiting workers and chasing growth.

https://restofworld.org/2025/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-book/

#ai #KarenHao #DataColonialism

📄 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.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

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

☝️Tomorrow starts our lecture series ‘Unstitching Datafication’.
Join us for our first lecture by Gavin Mueller: Luddite Futures.
⏰ April 16, at 2:15 pm
👉 registration: https://u-si.de/kZwhc Gavin Mueller presents a re-reading of the historic Luddites’ destruction of machines as a form of labor struggle.

#CRC2025 #Unstitching #glitch #DataColonialism #luddism

📢 The programme of our new lecture series »Unstitching Datafiction« is out, and we are excited about all the contributions! We invited artists, activists, and scholars to explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams.
👉 more information & registration: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/unstitching-datafication/

#CRC2025 #Unstitching #glitch #DataColonialism #luddism

RT @skinnylatte: AI is fundamentally about colonialism.

At its roots, what makes GenAI work is currency and hourly wage arbitrage. Pay data workers in Africa and Asia very low amounts of money to basically put the raw materials together.

There’s no surprise why @timnitGebru, @abebab and others have called this a form of algorithmic or #datacolonialism.

This podcast is not easy, and it is relatively long, but it digs deeply in the question of #datacolonialism #data #colonialism #bigtech #capitalism

https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/colonialism-with-ulises-a-mejias-and-nick-couldry

It makes the link between how we as a society have to function (communicate, work, play, ...) by the rules and the terms of the big tech corporations. Without any form of control from our side, this is a form of "colonialism", they argue, especially since our use of their platforms generates them money and influence.

'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
https://pca.st/episode/8b9826a1-9008-4e7b-ab1a-a45bb754034b

I'm looking for accessible resources such as podcasts, short articles, interviews, visuals, infographics, memes, ... to help me convince my friends to leave #meta #whatsapp #facebook #instagram etc. because of the issues around #contentmoderation #datacolonialism #ecology #sustainability #privacy #transrights #lgbtq #lgbtqia #safety etc. and to migrate to #signal #mastodon #pixelfed

What about things like:
- Tech won't save us
- The data fix
- 404 media
- ...

Thanks!

"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

https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry

#podcasts #TheNation #TechWontSaveUs #ParisMarx #Colonialism #DataColonialism #DataGrab

Can #AI help #Africa (#GlobalSouth) close the development gap?

#DigitalJustice #AI4SI #DataDivide #Poverty #DataColonialism via @ft

https://www.ft.com/content/bdab80fe-e800-4c1c-926d-a6faa750cd57

'behind the sleek facade of our digital world lies a hidden workforce that bears immense emotional burdens, so we don’t have to. Their experiences raise urgent questions about the ethical implications of data work and the human cost of maintaining our digital infrastructure.'

https://www.noemamag.com/the-human-cost-of-our-ai-driven-future/

Longread, do take your time!

#AI #Datawork #Datacolonialism
#Longread