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Strategies for Colonizing Death: The Online Dead, Griefbots, and Transhumanist Dragons

Religions
Digital immortality and transhumanist longevity proposals are currently researched and debated independently. This essay claims that both ideas represent two sides of the same cultural denial of death, reconceptualizing them as interconnected forms of ...
Raquel Ferrández
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Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated?

Internet Policy Review, 2019
Humanity is currently undergoing a large-scale social, economic and legal transformation based on the massive appropriation of social life through data extraction. This quantification of the social represents a new colonial move.
Nick Couldry, Ulises Mejias
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Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data

The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2022
AbstractDigital iterations of African literary texts present scholarly opportunities to interrogate how literature produced and circulated on digital media becomes entangled with the capitalist politics of datafication. In the data paradigm described in the article, literary representations are subject to the workings of neoliberal capital and the ...
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Resisting Data Colonialism - A Practical Intervention

, 2023
Some people think that colonialism is long over, while others are sure it has never stopped. This book explores a third possibility: not only is colonialism still continuing, but right now it is morphing into possibly its most powerful version yet. This is data colonialism.
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Artificial Intelligence: Code dependence as a new factor of social inequality

RUDN journal of Sociology
The article is a review of M. Murgia’s Code Dependent (transl. from English by Z. Mamedyarov; Moscow: Sindbad; 2026. 384 p.) - not a scientific, but a scientific-journalistic book by the editor of the Financial Times, who specializes in the development ...
A. V. Nimensky, A. D. Gerasimov
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Ethics, New Colonialism, and Lidar Data: A Decade of Lidar in Maya Archaeology

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2020
Maya archaeology has witnessed a paradigm shift in interpretations of the past with regards to the structure and organization of ancient societies as a result of the introduction of lidar to the field a decade ago.
Adrian S. Z. Chase, Diane Chase, Arlen Chase   +2 more
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Data as a national asset

Technology and Regulation
The Indian state has tried to project an image of data sovereignty, seeing data in terms of a national asset that needs to be protected against the data colonialism of Western Big Tech through various policy documents and rhetoric. In this paper, I have
Kushang Mishra
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Stambul Comedy Exploration in Early 20th-Century Semarang: Meaningful Teaching about Colonialism

Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education
This study aims to analyze the results of exploring stambul comedy as part of Indies art in early 20th-century Semarang as an effort to implement meaningful learning about colonialism for students.
Syaiful Amin, Sariyatun Sariyatun, Gunarhadi Gunarhadi, Hieronymus Purwanta   +3 more
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A Tactics of Earthy Data

Technology and Regulation
As climate change accelerates and the exploitation of the Earth and its peoples through the use of digital technologies deepens, what does it mean to demand decolonising in the context of data governance?
diane U+16DE
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Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India

Big Data & Society
Scholars have used the term data colonialism to designate the extractive, asymmetrical relationship between Big Tech corporations and countries in the global South.
Sagnik Dutta, Suruchi Mazumdar
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