(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 (https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418806091)
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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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Mann, Monique and Daly, Angela
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Item type: Article ID code: 69774 Dates: DateEvent1 May 2019Published26 October 2018Published Online14 February 2018AcceptedKeywords: 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: 29 Sep 2021 02:05 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/69774