Are we colonised by data?
Nick Couldry has recently coined the term 'data colonialism' in order to highlight continuities from colonialism\u2019s historic appropriation of resources to today's datafication of everyday life. He visited us in Berlin for his lecture "Colonised by data". HIIG researcher Thomas Christian B\xe4chle met with Couldry \u2013 who once was his professor at Goldsmiths College in London eleven years ago \u2013 for a talk on the digital society. In this episode, we learn about Couldry's very own media rituals \u2013 celebrity spotting and falling asleep to the radio news \u2013 as well as how a media professor is dealing with knowing what kind of personal data WhatsApp is collecting. Also: What exactly is data colonialism? How is it different from concepts such as surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, 2018) or data capitalism?