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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A collection of protected semantic frameworks written by lived-experience authors. Each glossary holds the line against pattern theft, narrative laundering, and coercive rewording.
These terms defend the metadata of lived experience in digital systems.
View Entries →The core terms that scaffold SSA™ and uphold protocol-layer authorship.
View Entries →These terms unpack how institutions weaponise the language of inclusion while reinforcing control.
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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.