Data Colonialism

Data Colonialism (Nick Couldry, 2010s) ­– the extraction and utilization of data to advance the interests of more powerful entities while disadvantaging the already marginalized or disempowered. Not all aspects of Data Colonialism are consciously or deliberately deployed. For example, many scholars have demonstrated how data sets on which Large Language Models are trained are riddled with deeply entrenched cultural biases – and so the “insights” they generate reflect and further entrench those biases.

Please cite this article as:
Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2023). “Data Colonialism” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.