Cybercolonialism and Citizenship

Tuzcu P, Kleinschmidt M, Natarajan R. Cybercolonialism and Citizenship. In: Supik L, Kleinschmidt M, Natarajan R, et al., eds. Gender, Race and Inclusive Citizenship. Dialoge zwischen Aktivismus und Wissenschaft. 1st ed. Wiesbaden: Springer; 2022: 431–448.After digitalisation was seen as a great opportunity for the emancipation of subjects in the 1990s and early 2000s (Block and Dickel 2020), it has become increasingly apparent in recent years that even supposedly neutral algorithms perpetuate and reinforce social inequalities, e.g. with regard to race and gender. Thus, the continuity of colonial discourse is becoming the focus of the debate on these processes. In conversation with Radhika Natarajan and Malte Kleinschmidt, Pinar Tuzcu explains how colonialism is reproduced in the digital world, and discusses political strategies to address this issue