Introduction

I am a professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego, and recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship. I co-founded the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement and the network Tierra Común, and serve on the Board of Directors of Humanities New York and on the Advisory Board of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law.

The research areas I am interested in include data colonialism, critical internet and AI studies, network theory and science, philosophy of technology, sociology of data, and political economy of digital media.

 

Selected Publications

For a list of my books, click here.

Some recent op-ed’s:

• AI Isn’t Going to Cut Government Bureaucracy — It’s Going to Vastly Worsen It (Truthout)
• Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too, with Nick Couldry (Tech Policy Press)
• Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown (Al Jazeera)
• The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity (Future U)
• Colonialism is challenged but also reinforced on university campuses (Al Jazeera)

Articles:

	Mejias, U. A. (2025). “The Museum as a Cultural Response to Data Colonialism”, in Digital museum: intelligences and artifices. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	link
	Mejias, U. A. (2024). Uses and Abuses of the Conquista: Book Review of Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest, by Fernando Cervantes (Penguin Random House, 2020) & ¿Quién conquistó México? [Who conquered Mexico], by Federico Navarrete (Debate, 2019). Alternautas, 11(1).	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 Metrics: This article has been viewed around 27,000 times according to the journal.	link [$]
	Mejias, U. A. and Couldry, N. (2019). Consumption as Production: Data and the Reproduction of Capitalist Relations. In F. Wherry and I. Woodward (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Consumption. Oxford University Press.	link
	Mejias, U. A. & Couldry, N. (2019). Datafication (Concepts of the digital society). Internet Policy Review, 8(4). DOI: 10.14763/2019.4.1428	link
	Couldry, N. & Mejias, U. A. (2019). Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated? Internet Policy Review, 8(2). DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1411	link
	Mejias, U. A. and Couldry, N. (2019). Colonialismo de datos: repensando la relación de los datos masivos con el sujeto contemporáneo. Virtualis: Revista de Cultural Digital, 10 (18). Ciudad de México.	link
	Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. A. (2018). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. Television & New Media, 20 (4). Metrics: This article has been downloaded and viewed around 50,000 times from the journal page, 27,000 times from the LSE page, and has about 1,670 citations according to Google Scholar. The article has an Altmetric Attention Score of 323, making it the 3rd article with the highest attention score published by the journal (impact factor of 1.245), and putting it in the top 5% of the more than 28 million research outputs tracked by Altmetric.	link
	Mejias, U. A. and Vokuev, N. (2017). Disinformation and the Media: The case of Russia and Ukraine. Media, Culture and Society (SAGE Journals).	link [$]
	Mejias, U. A. (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.