Your life online is their product.
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.
Über den Autor Ulises A. Mejias
Ulises A. Mejias, in Mexiko geboren, lebt und lehrt in den USA: Er ist Professor für Kommunikationswissenschaften und Direktor des Institute for Global Engagement an der SUNY New York.
Mejias arbeitet und schreibt bereits seit geraumer Zeit zusammen mit Nick Couldry. Ihre Forschungsergebnisse veröffentlichten sie u.a. in »The Atlantic«, »The Financial Times«, »Wired« und ihrem akademischen Buch »The Costs of Connection«.
Nick Couldry ist Professor für Medien- und Kultursoziologe an der London School of Economics and Political Science und Lehrbeauftragter an der Harvard University. Er lebt in London.
Couldry arbeitet und schreibt bereits seit geraumer Zeit zusammen mit Ulises A. Mejias. Ihre Forschungsergebnisse veröffentlichten sie u.a. in »The Atlantic«, »The Financial Times«, »Wired« und ihrem akademischen Buch »The Costs of Connection«.