Ulises Ali Mejías
Title
Ulises Ali Mejías
Rights
Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to James Russell.
Birthplace
Mexico City, Mexico (Mexican-American)
Primary Sources
Mejías, U.A & Couldry, N. (2024). Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo216184200.html
Mejias, U. (2023). Notes on the Historiography of Data Colonialism. In M. Filimowicz (Ed.), Algorithms and Society, Vol 6: Decolonizing Data. Routledge.
Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2023). The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading?. Information, Communication & Society, 26(4), 786-802. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1986102
Mejias, U. (2023). Notes on the Historiography of Data Colonialism. In M. Filimowicz (Ed.), Algorithms and Society, Vol 6: Decolonizing Data. Routledge.
Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2023). The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading?. Information, Communication & Society, 26(4), 786-802. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1986102
Mejias, U. (2023). Sovereignty and Its Outsiders: Data Sovereignty, Racism, and Immigration Control. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/3.2.7
Mejias, U. (2022). The People vs. the Algorithmic State: How government is aiding Big Tech’s extractivist agenda, and what we can do about it. PolicyLink Institute. https://www.policylink.org/resources-tools/the-people-vs-the- algorithmic-state
Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2021). The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life & Appropriates It for Capitalism. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28816
Couldry, N. & Mejias, U. (2021) The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading? Information, Communication & Society 26(4), 786-802. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1986102
Mejias, U. and Couldry, N. (2019). Consumption as Production: Data and the Reproduction of Capitalist Relations. In F. Wherry and I. Woodward (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Consumption. Oxford University Press.
Mejias, U. A. (2013). Off the network: Disrupting the digital world (Vol. 41). University of Minnesota Press.
Mejias, U. (2012). Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond. Fibreculture Journal, (20). http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/
Mejias, U. (2010). The Limits of Networks as Models for Organizing the Social. New Media & Society, 12(4), 603-617.
Secondary Sources
Pettis, B. (2020). The costs of connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism: by Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2019, 352 pages, 90(cloth); 30 (paperback); 20to 30 (ebook), ISBN: 9781503603660. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2020.1718835
Couldry, N., & Mejías, U. A. (2020). Health data and global power inequalities: challenging the world data order. Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação & Inovação em Saúde, 14(4). https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/2243
Couldry, N. & Mejias, U. (2019). Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated? Internet Policy Review, 8(2). https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/making-data-colonialism-liveable-how- might-datas-social-order-be-regulated. DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1411
Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. (2018). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. In S. Milan and E. Treré (eds.) Big Data from the South. Television and New Media 20(4), 336–349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418796632
Couldry, N., & Mejías, U. A. (2020). Health data and global power inequalities: challenging the world data order. Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação & Inovação em Saúde, 14(4). https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/2243
Couldry, N. & Mejias, U. (2019). Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated? Internet Policy Review, 8(2). https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/making-data-colonialism-liveable-how- might-datas-social-order-be-regulated. DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1411
Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. (2018). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. In S. Milan and E. Treré (eds.) Big Data from the South. Television and New Media 20(4), 336–349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418796632
Extra Resources
Ulises Ali Mejias site.nd. https://ulisesmejias.com/
Mejias, U. (2023, August 19). AI and the tyranny of the data commons. Op-ed for Al Jazeera. Accessed 30 January ,2024. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/8/19/ai-and-the-tyranny-of- the-data-commons
Mejias, U. (2021, March 4). Alternate Realities and the Logic of Data Colonialism. Blog post for the Institute of Network Cultures, The Netherlands. Accessed 30 January, 2024.https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/03/04/ulises-a-mejias-alternate-realities- and-the-logic-of-data-colonialism/
Mejias, U. A. (2020). To fight data colonialism, we need a Non-Aligned Tech Movement. Al Jazeera, 9. Accessed 30 January, 2024. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/8/to-fight-data-colonialism-we-need- a-non-aligned-tech-movement
Mejias, U. and Couldry, N. (2020, April 28). Resistance to the new data colonialism must start now. Op-ed for Al Jazeera. Accessed 30 January, 2024. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/resistance-data-colonialism-start- 200428162353538.html
Mejias, U. (2019, October 8). Some thoughts on decolonizing data. Blog post for Datactive - BigDataSur. Accessed 30 January, 2024. https://data-activism.net/2019/10/bigdatasur-some- thoughts-on-decolonizing-data/
Mejias, U. (2023, August 19). AI and the tyranny of the data commons. Op-ed for Al Jazeera. Accessed 30 January ,2024. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/8/19/ai-and-the-tyranny-of- the-data-commons
Mejias, U. (2021, March 4). Alternate Realities and the Logic of Data Colonialism. Blog post for the Institute of Network Cultures, The Netherlands. Accessed 30 January, 2024.https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/03/04/ulises-a-mejias-alternate-realities- and-the-logic-of-data-colonialism/
Mejias, U. A. (2020). To fight data colonialism, we need a Non-Aligned Tech Movement. Al Jazeera, 9. Accessed 30 January, 2024. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/8/to-fight-data-colonialism-we-need- a-non-aligned-tech-movement
Mejias, U. and Couldry, N. (2020, April 28). Resistance to the new data colonialism must start now. Op-ed for Al Jazeera. Accessed 30 January, 2024. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/resistance-data-colonialism-start- 200428162353538.html
Mejias, U. (2019, October 8). Some thoughts on decolonizing data. Blog post for Datactive - BigDataSur. Accessed 30 January, 2024. https://data-activism.net/2019/10/bigdatasur-some- thoughts-on-decolonizing-data/
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Citation
“Ulises Ali Mejías,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed August 7, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/668.