CIM News
Book launch - Data grab: The new colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back
Join the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) for the launch of a new book exploring the changing role of data in society and the role that we all have to play in resisting this new form of ‘data colonialism’.
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Book launch - Data grab: The new colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back
Wednesday 4th June 2025
Author talk: S0.18 4:00-5:30pm
Reception: FAB Agora 5:30-6:30pm
Please sign up here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/data-grab-new-colonialism-big-tech-fight-back/
In their new book, Data Grab, Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry 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 form of ‘data colonialism’ gives shape to a social order based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data. Resisting it will require strategies that decolonial thinking has foregrounded for decades.
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Ulises A. Mejias is Professor of Communication Studies at the State University of New York at Oswego
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