This course examines geopolitical control over digital data and ICTs, exploring how they lead to exploitation and marginalization of specific areas and populations. It connects analog and digital "othering" practices, highlighting power imbalances in data extraction and predictive analytics. We will investigate emerging subjectivities like data scientists, cybalterns, and artificial intelligentsia and examine how technological authority shapes and redefines information. The course also links historical settler colonialism with neocolonial and digital colonial impacts on diverse geographies.
This course examines geopolitical control over digital data and ICTs, exploring how they lead to exploitation and marginalization of specific areas and populations. It connects analog and digital "othering" practices, highlighting power imbalances in data extraction and predictive analytics. We will investigate emerging subjectivities like data scientists, cybalterns, and artificial intelligentsia and examine how technological authority shapes and redefines information. The course also links historical settler colonialism with neocolonial and digital colonial impacts on diverse geographies.
