Ulises A. Mejias

Fall 2024 Schedule:

• COM 211 81F Strat Communication in Bus. MWF 11:30 - 12:25 pm Park Hall 315
• BRC 108 800 intro to Mass Media M/W 3:00-4:20pm MCC 223

Research 

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.

Publications 

• My work has been cited over 4,000 times and I have an h-index of 17. My 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. My 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. For more information about my research activities, please see my website.
• Here's a video created by a popular YouTuber explaining the concept of 'data colonialism' I developed:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmX61zJLjcs
• Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. (2019). The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism. Stanford University Press.
• Mejias, U. (2013). Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World. University of Minnesota Press.

(For a full list of publications, see https://ulisesmejias.com)

Education 

• EdD in Communication, Computing and Technology in Education - Teachers College, Columbia University
• MS in Organizational Communication, Learning and Design - Ithaca College
• BFA in Film, Photography and Visual Arts - Ithaca College