I am 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.
The research areas I am interested in include critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy of technology, sociology of data, and political economy of digital media..
Selected Publications
![]() | Mejias, U. A. and Couldry, N. (2024). Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back. Penguin Random House / WH Allen. | link |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. (2023). Sovereignty and Its Outsiders: Data Sovereignty, Racism, and Immigration Control. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/3.2.7 | link |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. (2022). The People vs. the Algorithmic State: How government is aiding Big Tech’s extractivist agenda, and what we can do about it. PolicyLink Institute. https://www.policylink.org/resources-tools/the-people-vs-the-algorithmic-state | link |
![]() | Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. A. (2021). The decolonial turn in data and technology research: What is at stake and where is it heading?, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1986102
| link [$] |
![]() | Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. A. (2019). The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism. Stanford University Press. | link |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. and Couldry, N. (2019). Consumption as Production: Data and the Reproduction of Capitalist Relations. In F. Wherry and I. Woodward (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Consumption. Oxford University Press. | link |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. & Couldry, N. (2019). Datafication (Concepts of the digital society). Internet Policy Review, 8(4). DOI: 10.14763/2019.4.1428 | link |
![]() | Couldry, N. & Mejias, U. A. (2019). Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated? Internet Policy Review, 8(2). DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1411 | link |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. and Couldry, N. (2019). Colonialismo de datos: repensando la relación de los datos masivos con el sujeto contemporáneo. Virtualis: Revista de Cultural Digital, 10 (18). Ciudad de México. | link |
![]() | Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. A. (2018). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. Television & New Media, 20 (4).
| link |
![]() | Mejias, U. A> and Vokuev, N. (2017). Disinformation and the Media: The case of Russia and Ukraine. Media, Culture and Society (SAGE Journals). | link [$] |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. (2013). Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World. University of Minnesota Press. | link |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. (2012). Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond. Fibreculture, Special Issue on Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures. http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/20/fcj-147-liberation-technology-and-the-arab-spring-from-utopia-to-atopia-and-beyond/ | link |
![]() | Clark, P., Mejias, U., Cavana, P., Herson, D., and Strong, S. M. (2011). Interactive Social Media and the Art of Telling Stories: Strategies for Social Justice Through Osw3go.net 2010: Racism on Campus. In B. Beyerbach and R. D. Davis (eds.) Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. | |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. (2010). The Limits of Networks as Models for Organizing the Social. New Media & Society, (12) 4, 603-617. | link [$] |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. (2005). Re–approaching Nearness: Online Communication and its Place in Praxis. First Monday, (10) 3. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1213/1133 | link |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. (2001). Sustainable Communicational Realities in the Age of Virtuality. Critical Studies in Media Communication, (18) 2, 211-228. | |
![]() | Mejias, U. A. (2001). Sustainable Communicational Realities in the Age of Virtuality. Critical Studies in Media Communication, (18) 2, 211-228. |
Contact Info
ulises DOT mejias AT oswego DOT edu