Becoming Data Episode 5: Data & Racial Capitalism
Data & Society
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Disconnection From Social Media, Disconnection Refusal
This is a dangerous way to frame disconnection as embowering, whatas this is actually a privilege. And in my work i saw actually that disconnection is stratified and traversed by so many inequalities and divides and privileges that make, for some people imp able to disconnect. So the point is that we are not only witnessing a digital divide now tha, or different kind of digital divides that still exist and persist. But at the same time, we have what some of my interviewes called the impossibility to disconnect. Because gig workers and other people,. especially the people that i interviewed in brazil, in columbia and mexico, they couldn't take a break because they
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