From eletronic colonelism to digital colonialism

hegemonic perspectives of technological power concentration and risks to digital sovereignty

Abstract

This article examines the evolution of media power in Brazil, tracing a historical line that connects electronic colonelism to digital colonialism. From the deductive approach method, the research discusses how the hegemonic concentration of the means of communication and digital platforms represents a crescent risk to digital sovereignty. Thus, the research questions the extent to which the current regulations and Brazilian public policies are sufficient to mitigate the impacts of the concentration of technological power and digital colonialism, and how this legal loophole favors the reproduction of historical practices such as electronic colonelism, placing in place the digital sovereignty of the State and the autonomy of two cite your data and information. Employing the functionalist procedural method and documentary and bibliographic research techniques, the study analyzes the power structures that perpetuate informational inequality. The analysis suggests that the transition of hegemony from traditional media groups to global technology corporations deepens the dependence and vulnerability of the nation-state. It is discussed how the appropriation of data and algorithmic control by foreign powers configures a new type of domination, undermining national autonomy and social self-determination.