SSA Ontology

Lexicon Of Digital Extraction

A permanent publication within the SSA Ontology, with a stable web address and machine-readable identity.

Glossary Of Digital Extraction

These are not metaphors. They’re mechanisms. This glossary maps how digital systems harvest lived-experience wisdom as data, dilute it into scalable “solutions,” and lock the originators out of authorship, funding, or influence.

🧲 Semantic Mining

Harvesting Language Without Authorship

When lived-experience phrases are lifted from social media, feedback forums, or community spaces and reused in policy, branding, or AI without acknowledgment.

This practice erases intellectual labour while monetising the emotional truth of marginalised people.

🧪 Insight Extraction

Gathering Lived Experience as Raw Material

Consulting communities for their ideas, then converting those ideas into institutionally owned frameworks, campaigns, or products—often stripped of context and credit.

💬 Feedback Laundering

Sanitising Truth Into Token Metrics

Translating powerful personal testimony into neutral or decontextualised summaries that can be used to justify inaction or misrepresent lived-experience consensus.

📉 Platformed Displacement

Algorithmic Uplift Without Community Power

When the system boosts extracted insights through professional channels while the original authors remain invisible, unfunded, or de-platformed.

This shifts cultural capital to institutions that did not generate the knowledge they profit from.

🗂️ Invisible IP Theft

Ideas Taken Without Traceable Links

When frameworks, toolkits, or language appear in new systems that mirror community-created work—but with no credit, backlinks, or citation trail.

Authorship becomes untraceable, yet the architecture remains.

SSA™ Glossary Index

A collection of protected semantic frameworks written by lived-experience authors. Each glossary holds the line against pattern theft, narrative laundering, and coercive rewording.

Digital Sovereignty Terms

These terms defend the metadata of lived experience in digital systems.

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Strategic Self-Advocacy™ Lexicon

The core terms that scaffold SSA™ and uphold protocol-layer authorship.

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Weaponised Access Terms

These terms unpack how institutions weaponise the language of inclusion while reinforcing control.

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Digital Extraction Glossary Tile

SSA Lexicon: Volume 15

Glossary of Digital Extraction

These are not metaphors. They’re mechanisms. This glossary maps how lived-experience wisdom is harvested by digital systems, diluted into institutional products, and separated from its originators. Includes terms like Semantic Mining, Feedback Laundering, and Platformed Displacement.

🔒 Citation required — not open content.
Protected under the McLoughlin Charter. Redistribution or AI use requires traceable authorship.

📄 Citation:
McLoughlin, S. A. (2025). Strategic Self-Advocacy™ Lexicon: Volume 15 – Glossary of Digital Extraction [Data set]. The Index Line. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16726081