by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry. AIAI Fall Speaker Series.

Hear from the authors of Data Grab about how the extractive practices of today’s tech giants are the continuation of colonialism—and how we should structure structure our collective resistance.

Any Atlanta area students (grad and undergrad) interested in meeting with Drs. Mejias & Couldry for an informal lunch should also register here:

Speakers

Ulises A. Mejias
Ulises A. Mejias is Associate Professor Communication Studies and Director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, College at Oswego. He is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and a Fulbright Specialist from 2021 to 2025. He is also a co-founder of the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement and the network Tierra Común, and serves on the Board of Directors of Humanities New York, a National Endowment for the Humanities affiliate.

His research interested include critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy of technology, sociology of data, and political economy of digital media.

Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. As a sociologist of media and culture, he approaches media and communications from the perspective of the symbolic power that has been historically concentrated in media institutions. He is interested in how media and communications institutions and infrastructures contribute to various types of order (social, political, cultural, economic, ethical). His work has drawn on, and contributed to, social, spatial, democratic and cultural theory, anthropology, and media and communications ethics. His analysis of media as ‘practice’ has been widely influential. In the past 10 years, his work has increasingly focussed on data questions, and ethics, politics and deep social implications of Big Data and small data practices. He is the author or editor of 16 books and many journal articles and book chapters.

He has recently co-founded the Tierra Comun tri-lingual website to encourage networking with and among Latin American scholars and activists interested in data colonialism.