International Ethics Lecture with Professor + Author Ulises Mejias
'The RIT Political Science Department's Annual International Ethics Lecture is excited to offer another in a long line of cutting-edge thinkers examining the intersection of international and global politics, ethics, and the technologies that increasingly alter how we must approach them. Professor Mejias presents a talk based on, and sharing a title with, his newest book (with Nick Couldry), which argues that just as nations stole territories for ill-gotten minerals and crops, wealth, and dominance, tech companies steal personal data important to our lives. Moreover, not only is a colonialist framework crucial to comprehending the full scope of this heist, but to defy it we will need to learn from previous forms of resistance and work together to imagine entirely new ones.'
Bio: A professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego, recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and a Fulbright Specialist from 2021 to 2025. I am also a co-founder of the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement and the network Tierra Común, and serve on the Board of Directors of Humanities New York, a National Endowment for the Humanities affiliate.
Publications: Most recent book (co-authored with Nick Couldry) is Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back (2024, Penguin Random House and University of Chicago Press). This book has also been published in Germany and South Korea. Previous book (also with Couldry) was The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism (2019, Stanford University Press). It has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Spanish and Turkish. For more information about my research activities, please see his website.
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