BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sabre-vobject-3b05ef51-8f04-4e24-9def-ecd39dff9f88 DTSTAMP:20260502T093603Z SUMMARY:Colonized by Data: The Costs of Connection with Nick Couldry and Ul ises Mejias DESCRIPTION:This talk introduces the speakers’ new book\, \;The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capi talism \;(Stanford University Press\, August 2019). Couldry and Mejias argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism\, but as the start of a new phase in human histo ry that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This n ew "data colonialism" is based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor\, but on the appropriation of human life through data\, paving th e way for a further stage of capitalism. Today’s transformations of soci al life through data must therefore be grasped within the long historical arc of dispossession as both a new colonialism and an extension of capital ism. Resistance requires challenging once again the forms of coloniality t hat decolonial thinking has foregrounded for centuries. The struggle will be both broader and longer than many analyses of algorithmic power suppose \, but for that reason critical responses are all the more urgent.Nick Cou ldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Commu nications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Politica l Science\, and from 2017 has been a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berk man Klein Center for Internet and Society. In fall 2018 he was also a Visi ting Professor at MIT. He jointly led\, with Clemencia Rodriguez\, the cha pter on media and communications in the 22 chapter 2018 report of the Inte rnational Panel on social Progress: www.ipsp.org. His latest books are The Costs of Connection and Media: Why It Matters (Polity: October 2019). Uli ses Ali \;Mejías is associate professor of Communication Studies and director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York\, College at Oswego. He is a media scholar whose work encompasse s critical internet studies\, network theory and science\, philosophy and sociology of technology\, and political economy of digital media. He is th e author of \;Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World \;(Uni versity of Minnesota Press\, 2013) and various articles including ‘Disin formation and the Media: The case of Russia and Ukraine’ in Media\, Cult ure and Society (2017\, with N. Vokuev)\, and ‘Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond’ in Fibreculture (201 2). He is the principal investigator in the Algorithm Observatory project. DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190919T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190919T131500 LOCATION:23 Everett Street \, Cambridge (United States of America) BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Colonized by Data: The Costs of Connection with Nick Couldry an d Ulises Mejias TRIGGER:-PT30M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR