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datafication

datafication noun: the process of datafying.

Noun

datafication (countable and uncountable, plural datafications)

  1. The process of datafying.
    • Rendition describes the concrete operational practices through which dispossession is accomplished, as human experience is claimed as raw material for datafication and all that follows, from manufacturing to sales.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 8, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
    • I discovered the work of scholars Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias, whose foundational text The Costs of Connection, published just that year [2019], argued that Silicon Valley’s pervasive datafication of everything was leading to a return of disturbing historical patterns of conquest and...2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN

Forms of datafication

pluraldatafications

Origin of datafication

From data + -fication.

Questions about datafication

What does datafication mean?
Datafication means the process of datafying.
What part of speech is datafication?
Datafication is a noun.
What is the plural of datafication?
The plural of datafication is datafications.

Words near datafication in the dictionary

  1. datacomms
  2. datacommunications
  3. datacoms
  4. datacube
  5. datacubes
  6. datafication
  7. datafications
  8. datafied
  9. datafies
  10. datafile
  11. datafiles

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