Colonized by Data: Resisting Capitalism's Emerging Social Order

Authors Nick Couldry and Ulises Alí Mejías joined Gloria Steinem Chair Naomi Klein's course, "The Corporate Self," on September 16, 2019 to discuss their book, "The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism."
Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture, professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
Ulises Alí Mejías is associate professor of Communication Studies, director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, College at Oswego, and a media scholar whose work encompasses critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy and sociology of technology, and political economy of digital media.
This event was sponsored by the Institute for Women's Leadership, Department of Women's and Gender Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Communication and Information.