#which again is not helpful. that problematising was done like sixty years ago you’re late to the boat on this one

[communistkenobi]

media studies people for some reason keep publishing articles about the colonial/imperial problems with data collection & information science. my question is who asked you

#like I’m searching for methodological solutions to these problems I don’t need you to tell me data extraction is implicated in colonialism #this is well know and has been well known for a long time! Merely asserting this fact is not helpful or noteworthy #I would be legitimately curious though as to why this is happening #I’m not a hardliner on staying in disciplinary lanes or anything but this keeps happening for some reason #specifically with media studies. & they just keep problematising information & geographic science and doing nothing else #which again is not helpful. that problematising was done like sixty years ago you’re late to the boat on this one