Ulises A Mejias
Biographic Data
| ID | 365547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulises A Mejias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulises A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mejias |
| SIGNATURE | MEJIAS U A |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York at Oswego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3774-0195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 386 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
The decolonial turn in data and technology research: What is at stake and where is it heading
This article traces the emergence of a ‘decolonial turn’ in critical technology and data studies that analyzes the transformation of society through data extraction for profit. First, we offer a genealogy of concepts over the last decade from different fields related to this decolonial turn, including work that explores the connection between racism and data. Second, we discuss the commonalities and differences between these approaches and our ow…
Le colonialisme des données: Repenser la relation entre le big data et le sujet contemporain
On affirme souvent que les données numériques sont le nouveau pétrole. Mais contrairement au pétrole, les données ne sont pas une substance que l’on trouve dans la nature. Il faut se les approprier. La collecte et le traitement des données sociales s’effectuent par le biais d’un processus que nous appelons relations de données, qui assure la conversion « naturelle » de la vie quotidienne en un flux de données. Le résultat n’est rien de moins qu’u…
Analyzing the Platform Economy – Feudalism, Medievalism and Colonialism as Useful Frameworks
The platform economy challenges existing economic systems, social interactions and participation as well as the very foundation of democracy. As data is replacing labor as the central economic good, economy, society, class structures and democracy might change fundamentally. Or we might experience old wine on new bottles. Karl Marx famously said that history tends to repeat itself, first as comedy, later as tragedy. In this panel we ask, whether …
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participatio…
Health data and global power inequalities: Challenging the world data order
Today’s global media infrastructures involve not just media, but the continual extraction and circulation of data across digital platforms, with health data being an important data domain. The extraction and use of health data raises particular human rights issues. This paper reviews, fist, the basic risks to individuals from unconstrained collection, use and transfer of their personal health data; second, the implications of the fast-growing hea…
The Costs of Connection: How Data Are Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
Journal Article The Costs of Connection: How Data Are Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism Get access Stanford University Press, 2019, 352 pages. https://www.sup.org/books/precart/?id=28816 Nick Couldry, Nick Couldry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ulises A Mejias Ulises A Mejias Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 1,…
Datafication
Datafication is not just the making of information, which, in one sense, human beings have been doing since the creation of symbols and writing. Rather, datafication is a contemporary phenomenon which refers to the quantification of human life through digital information, very often for economic value. This process has major social consequences. Disciplines such as political economy, critical data studies, software studies, legal theory, and—more…
Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data's Relation to the Contemporary Subject
We are often told that data are the new oil. But unlike oil, data are not a substance found in nature. It must be appropriated. The capture and processing of social data unfolds through a process we call data relations, which ensures the "natural" conversion of daily life into a data stream. The result is nothing less than a new social order, based on continuous tracking, and offering unprecedented new opportunities for social discrimination and …
Disinformation and the media: The case of Russia and Ukraine
The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine can be analyzed as an instance where the Internet has strengthened the power of political actors to create disinformation. But it is no longer only the state-supported media monopoly that produces and disseminates propaganda. Citizens themselves actively participate in their own disenfranchisement by using social media to generate, consume or distribute false information, contributing to a new order…
“Playbor” on the Internet
Research Article| January 01 2010 “Playbor” on the Internet Ulises A. Mejias Ulises A. Mejias ULISES A. MEJIAS is an assistant professor of Communications at the State University of New York at Oswego. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2010) 37 (4): 2. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2010.37.4.2 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon …
The limits of networks as models for organizing the social
Social network services exhibit dual processes that enable both the creation of new public spaces and the controlling and monitoring of these spaces through mechanisms facilitated by the architecture of the network itself. This article explores how network science informs the design of for-profit networking services by providing templates for organizing the social. As the case of social networking websites illustrates, networks have gone from sci…
Re–approaching Nearness: Online communication and its place in Praxis
An interesting transposition has happened. It used to be that the farther things were, the more difficult it was to know them. Today, thanks to communication technologies, we often develop relationships with what is far at the expense of what is immediately around us. This paper explores the increased irrelevancy that the near acquires through our use of online technologies. But by proposing a model of praxis that incorporates our actions online …
Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data's Relation to the Contemporary Subject
We are often told that data are the new oil. But unlike oil, data are not a substance found in nature. It must be appropriated. The capture and processing of social data unfolds through a process we call data relations, which ensures the "natural" conversion of daily life into a data stream. The result is nothing less than a new social order, based on continuous tracking, and offering unprecedented new opportunities for social discrimination and …
Disinformation and the media: The case of Russia and Ukraine
The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine can be analyzed as an instance where the Internet has strengthened the power of political actors to create disinformation. But it is no longer only the state-supported media monopoly that produces and disseminates propaganda. Citizens themselves actively participate in their own disenfranchisement by using social media to generate, consume or distribute false information, contributing to a new order…
The limits of networks as models for organizing the social
Social network services exhibit dual processes that enable both the creation of new public spaces and the controlling and monitoring of these spaces through mechanisms facilitated by the architecture of the network itself. This article explores how network science informs the design of for-profit networking services by providing templates for organizing the social. As the case of social networking websites illustrates, networks have gone from sci…
The Costs of Connection: How Data Are Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
Journal Article The Costs of Connection: How Data Are Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism Get access Stanford University Press, 2019, 352 pages. https://www.sup.org/books/precart/?id=28816 Nick Couldry, Nick Couldry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ulises A Mejias Ulises A Mejias Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 1,…
Re–approaching Nearness: Online communication and its place in Praxis
An interesting transposition has happened. It used to be that the farther things were, the more difficult it was to know them. Today, thanks to communication technologies, we often develop relationships with what is far at the expense of what is immediately around us. This paper explores the increased irrelevancy that the near acquires through our use of online technologies. But by proposing a model of praxis that incorporates our actions online …
The limits of networks as models for organizing the social
Social network services exhibit dual processes that enable both the creation of new public spaces and the controlling and monitoring of these spaces through mechanisms facilitated by the architecture of the network itself. This article explores how network science informs the design of for-profit networking services by providing templates for organizing the social. As the case of social networking websites illustrates, networks have gone from sci…
“Playbor” on the Internet
Research Article| January 01 2010 “Playbor” on the Internet Ulises A. Mejias Ulises A. Mejias ULISES A. MEJIAS is an assistant professor of Communications at the State University of New York at Oswego. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2010) 37 (4): 2. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2010.37.4.2 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon …
Disinformation and the media: The case of Russia and Ukraine
The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine can be analyzed as an instance where the Internet has strengthened the power of political actors to create disinformation. But it is no longer only the state-supported media monopoly that produces and disseminates propaganda. Citizens themselves actively participate in their own disenfranchisement by using social media to generate, consume or distribute false information, contributing to a new order…
Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data's Relation to the Contemporary Subject
We are often told that data are the new oil. But unlike oil, data are not a substance found in nature. It must be appropriated. The capture and processing of social data unfolds through a process we call data relations, which ensures the "natural" conversion of daily life into a data stream. The result is nothing less than a new social order, based on continuous tracking, and offering unprecedented new opportunities for social discrimination and …
Datafication
Datafication is not just the making of information, which, in one sense, human beings have been doing since the creation of symbols and writing. Rather, datafication is a contemporary phenomenon which refers to the quantification of human life through digital information, very often for economic value. This process has major social consequences. Disciplines such as political economy, critical data studies, software studies, legal theory, and—more…
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participatio…
Health data and global power inequalities: Challenging the world data order
Today’s global media infrastructures involve not just media, but the continual extraction and circulation of data across digital platforms, with health data being an important data domain. The extraction and use of health data raises particular human rights issues. This paper reviews, fist, the basic risks to individuals from unconstrained collection, use and transfer of their personal health data; second, the implications of the fast-growing hea…
The Costs of Connection: How Data Are Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
Journal Article The Costs of Connection: How Data Are Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism Get access Stanford University Press, 2019, 352 pages. https://www.sup.org/books/precart/?id=28816 Nick Couldry, Nick Couldry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ulises A Mejias Ulises A Mejias Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 1,…
Analyzing the Platform Economy – Feudalism, Medievalism and Colonialism as Useful Frameworks
The platform economy challenges existing economic systems, social interactions and participation as well as the very foundation of democracy. As data is replacing labor as the central economic good, economy, society, class structures and democracy might change fundamentally. Or we might experience old wine on new bottles. Karl Marx famously said that history tends to repeat itself, first as comedy, later as tragedy. In this panel we ask, whether …
Le colonialisme des données: Repenser la relation entre le big data et le sujet contemporain
On affirme souvent que les données numériques sont le nouveau pétrole. Mais contrairement au pétrole, les données ne sont pas une substance que l’on trouve dans la nature. Il faut se les approprier. La collecte et le traitement des données sociales s’effectuent par le biais d’un processus que nous appelons relations de données, qui assure la conversion « naturelle » de la vie quotidienne en un flux de données. Le résultat n’est rien de moins qu’u…
The decolonial turn in data and technology research: What is at stake and where is it heading
This article traces the emergence of a ‘decolonial turn’ in critical technology and data studies that analyzes the transformation of society through data extraction for profit. First, we offer a genealogy of concepts over the last decade from different fields related to this decolonial turn, including work that explores the connection between racism and data. Second, we discuss the commonalities and differences between these approaches and our ow…
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Capitalism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)