일시: 11월 4일 (목) 오후 6 – 8시
온라인 참여: https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/88146401442
다시 보기 : https://youtu.be/cfht7S2Enek
발표자: Nick Couldry 교수(London School of Economics and Political Science)
Ulises Mejias 교수(State University Of New York at Oswego)
주제: The Decolonial Turn in Data and Technology Research: What is at Stake and Where is it Heading?

초록: This talk will begin by outlining the argument of the speakers’ recent book, The Costs of
Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (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 history that rivals in
importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This new "data colonialism" is based not on the
extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data, paving
the way for a further stage of capitalism. Today’s transformations of social life through data must
therefore be grasped within the long historical arc of dispossession as both a new colonialism and an
extension of capitalism. Resistance requires challenging in their new material guises forms of
coloniality that 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. The talk will conclude by reviewing the strengths and potential limits of
decolonial approaches to data more generally, as a possible starting-point for global resistance to Big
Tech power.

연사 소개: Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media
Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and
from 2017 has been a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
In fall 2018 he was also a Visiting Professor at MIT. He jointly led, with Clemencia Rodriguez, the
chapter on media and communications in the 22 chapter 2018 report of the International Panel on
social Progress: www.ipsp.org. He is the author or editor of fourteen books including The Mediated
Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, Polity, 2016), Media, Society, World: Social Theory and
Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters (Sage 2010). His latest books are The
Costs of Connection and Media: Why It Matters (Polity: October 2019). nickcouldry.org
Ulises Ali Mejias is 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 encompasses critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy and sociology of
technology, and political economy of digital media. He is the author of Off the Network: Disrupting the
Digital World (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and various articles including ‘Disinformation and
the Media: The case of Russia and Ukraine’ in Media, Culture and Society (2017, with N. Vokuev),
and ‘Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond’ in Fibreculture
(2012). ulisesmejias.com