I am an associate professor in the Communication Studies department at SUNY Oswego, and the director of the Institute for Global Engagement.

My research interests include critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy and sociology of technology, and political economy of digital media.

 My book, Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (2013), was published by University of Minnesota Press. Find out more.

Latest News

• From now until mid October, you can access at no cost the article Nick Couldry and I just published on the journal Television and New Media: “Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject.”
• On Sep 20, 2018, I will be moderating a panel with Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (February 2018); and Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (June 2018). The panel is the launch event for the Buffalo Humanities Festival.
• The prototype for Algorithm Observatory is now open for testing. Part media literacy project and part citizen science experiment, this tool can help us understand how algorithms categorize us. The general public is invited to test the prototype.
• Two concepts I developed, nodocentrism and paranodality, are now part of the Oxford Dictionary of Social Media (edited by Daniel Chandler and Rod Munday — behind a paywall).
• Check out the website for my forthcoming book, co-authored with Nick Couldry:  The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism Capitalization of Life without Limit.
• I was interviewed and featured in the article “Revelations about Russia’s information warfare,” which appeared in the print and online versions of Caixin Weekly (link behind paywall). The magazine is published by Caixin Media, one of the more independent and reputable media outlets in China according to The Economist.
• Humanities New York, an NEH partner, elected me to their Board of Directors.

 

Work in Progress

	Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. (forthcoming in 2019). The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism. Stanford University Press.
	Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. (in press). 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.

Selected Publications

	Couldry, N. and Mejias, U. (2018). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. Television & New Media (SAGE Journals).	available online
	Mejias, U. and Vokuev, N. (2017). Disinformation and the Media: The case of Russia and Ukraine. Media, Culture and Society (SAGE Journals).	available online
	Mejias, U. (2013). Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World. University of Minnesota Press.	available online

	Translations of Off the Network:
		Mejias, U. (2017). Desmantelando la Red. Revista 404. Ciudad de Mexico: Centro de Cultura Digital. [SPANISH - abridged version]	available online
		Mejias, U. (2014). Odmapowując sieć. In P. Celiński (ed.) Nowe media = nowa partycypacja. Lublin, Poland: Instytut Kultury Cyfrowej. [POLISH - abridged version]	available online

	Mejias, U. (2012). Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond. Fibreculture, Special Issue on Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures. http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/20/fcj-147-liberation-technology-and-the-arab-spring-from-utopia-to-atopia-and-beyond/	available online
	Clark, P., Mejias, U., Cavana, P., Herson, D., and Strong, S. M. (2011). Interactive Social Media and the Art of Telling Stories: Strategies for Social Justice Through Osw3go.net 2010: Racism on Campus. In B. Beyerbach and R. D. Davis (eds.) Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
	Mejias, U. (2011). How I Used Wikis to Get My Students to Do Their Readings. In T. Scholz (ed.) Learning Through Digital Media: Essays on Technology and Pedagogy. Institute for Distributed Creativity. http://tinyurl.com/3mjfmwd	available online
	Mejias, U. (2011). Towards a Critique of Digital Networks for Learning. Progressive Librarian, 34/35, 46-49.	available online
	Mejias, U. (2011). The Twitter Revolution Must Die. International Journal of Learning and Media, (2) 4. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/ijlm_a_00060
	Mejias, U. (2010). Peerless: The Ethics of P2P Network Disassembly. 4th Inclusiva.net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes, Madrid, 6-10 July 2009, pp. 56-66, Madrid: Medialab Prado & Área de las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. (Spanish and English)	available online
	Mejias, U. (2010). The Limits of Networks as Models for Organizing the Social. New Media & Society, (12) 4, 603-617.
	Mejias, U. (2010). “Playbor” on the Internet. Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, (37) 4 (January/February 2010), p. 2.
	Mejias, U. (2005). Re–approaching Nearness: Online Communication and its Place in Praxis. First Monday, (10) 3. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1213/1133	available online
	Mejias, U. (2001). Sustainable Communicational Realities in the Age of Virtuality. Critical Studies in Media Communication, (18) 2, 211-228.