Conversations Across Screen Cultures: Ulises Mejias

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Ulises Mejias is 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. He is 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 areas include data colonialism, critical internet and AI studies, network theory and science, philosophy of technology, sociology of data, and political economy of digital media. His 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. His 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.

Conversations Across Screen Cultures is a collaboratively produced speaker series that creates space for dynamic conversations among screen studies scholars and practitioners. Sessions feature open discussion and dialogue between speakers and attendees. Begun by Patty Zimmermann during the pandemic lockdown, Conversations Across Screen Cultures honors Patty’s legacy by promoting connection and collaboration as critical modes for screen studies practice.