datafication

English

Etymology

From data +‎ -fication.

Noun

datafication (countable and uncountable, plural datafications)

  1. The process of datafying.
    • 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 8, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
      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.
    • 2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
      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 extractivism.
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