Talk:Electronic colonialism

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 September 2021 and 1 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): EvanCrawley.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 20:23, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Non-neutral point of view and insufficient references
I'm adding the POV tag and the Refimprove tag because this article 1) cites very few sources to back up claims in the text and 2) reads in a way that, at least to me, seems strongly to presuppose the correctness of the ideas described in the article, though those ideas are not obviously true. See WP:NPOV, and especially WP:ASF: this article makes many disputable assertions, and in most cases does not attribute them. One example from the article text is the sentence, "The mass media over time will impact more and more individuals—primarily using the English language—to become more similar as indigenous films and artifacts become marginalized by a cultural tsunami created by high quality and mass produced media messages and systems."

There are a number of other examples, though I hope I won't have to catalog them, where the writing uses words with negative connotations to suggest that the trend described in the article is actually occurring as described, and is unfavorable. While both claims are arguable, neither is obvious or universally accepted.. I don't know a lot about this topic, and I suspect some other Wikipedians do, so I hope someone out there can contribute a source or two and a few minutes' editing to make this article more balanced. Heck, if you can even contribute a source or two I'll put it on my own to-do list.. W.stanovsky (talk) 08:09, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

More references
I had added two references (in connection with the term "digital colonialism") on 30 April 2019, and they were removed for some unknown reason on 12 June 2020. So I include them here now for posterity. I was thinking that some of the information from those articles could be used to improve this article, as they seem quite relevant to the topic, but I wasn't sure how to go about working that into the article. -- HLachman (talk) 05:40, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Internet Health Report (April 2018). Resisting digital colonialism.
 * Solon, Olivia (July 27, 2017). 'It's digital colonialism': how Facebook's free internet service has failed its users. The Guardian.

Aug 22 tags
Hey, @Ggpur! Can you discuss a bit about what you're seeing specifically? Valereee (talk) 15:54, 23 August 2022 (UTC)