On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry Silicon Valley’s extractive data collection regime. Paris Marx Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk ...

Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era says Michael Kwet in discussing centralized control of the Internet at the root of current problems like privacy and monopoly power and the ...

“The new alliance between [Elon] Musk and President Donald Trump’s government might seem shocking, seen from the perspective of recent liberal capitalism. But it makes absolute sense within colonial ...

This article discusses how AI companies exploit data without consent, likening it to colonial practices. The term 'digital colonialism' describes this modern-day exploitation. Resistance inspired by ...

This talk introduces the speakers’ new book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press, August 2019). Couldry and Mejias ...

In recent years, much has been written about the growing threat posed by governments that increasingly collect, restrict, and manipulate data for authoritarian purposes. While “data” is key to ...

In the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts, albums, painting, photographs and much more to ...