(Big) data and the north-in-south : Australia's informational imperialism and digital colonialism

Mann, Monique and Daly, Angela (2019) (Big) data and the north-in-south : Australia's informational imperialism and digital colonialism. Television and New Media, 20 (4). pp. 379-395. ISSN 1527-4764

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    Abstract

    Australia is a country firmly part of the Global North, yet geographically located in the Global South. This North-in-South divide plays out internally within Australia given its status as a British settler-colonial society which continues to perpetrate imperial and colonial practices vis-à-vis the Indigenous peoples and vis-à-vis Australia’s neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This article draws on and discusses five seminal examples forming a case study on Australia to examine big data practices through the lens of Southern Theory from a criminological perspective. We argue that Australia’s use of big data cements its status as a North-in-South environment where colonial domination is continued via modern technologies to effect enduring informational imperialism and digital colonialism. We conclude by outlining some promising ways in which data practices can be decolonized through Indigenous Data Sovereignty but acknowledge these are not currently the norm; so Australia’s digital colonialism/coloniality endures for the time being.

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    • Item type:Article
      ID code:69774
      Dates:
      Date
      Event
      1 May 2019
      Published
      26 October 2018
      Published Online
      14 February 2018
      Accepted
      Keywords:Australia, big data, data colonialism, southern criminology, southern theory, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Visual Arts and Performing Arts
      Subjects:Social Sciences > Sociology
      Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Law > Law
      Depositing user: Pure Administrator
      Date deposited:12 Sep 2019 12:57
      Last modified:20 Apr 2021 00:54
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      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/69774
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