Good news! The Introduction to the Handbook of Critical Data Studies #HCDS #CriticalDataStudies is now open access. You can get a good overview of the volume: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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New book out: De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies. Edited by Ulises Mejias (ulises-mejias.bsky.social), Jasmine McNealy (@jasminemcnealy.com) and Milagros Miceli (@milamiceli.bsky.social). Thanks to the authors of this incredible collection of 33 chapters! tnyr.me#NAUVTms1Dm
My interview for Humanities New York - Inflection Points: "But the conversation moves beyond critique of technology alone. Again and again, Mejias returns to the role of the humanities in helping people navigate periods of rapid change." youtu.be/EACAydNg87A
The Digital Revolution and the Future of Civic Life | Ulises Mejias | Inflection Points
YouTube video by Humanities New York
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The human labor that makes AI work: Regine Cabato and I were interviewed for NPR's It's Been a Minute: www.npr.org/2026/05/11/n...
The human labor that makes AI work : It's Been a Minute
Can AI really do everything by itself?AI has impressed a lot of people with its output. But even though it’s sold as an autonomous, inhuman tool, there’s a lot of human work that goes into it. While t...
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The documentary Data Revolution is out: youtu.be/hIfgNruCA6Q?...
Data Revolution | Full Documentary
YouTube video by INCA_EU
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New in Academe: "Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor" by Ulises A. Mejias: www.aaup.org/issue/winter... @ulises-mejias.bsky.social
In the new episode of the podcast, we talk to @ulises-mejias.bsky.social & @couldrynick.bsky.social about their book Data Grab! They talk the 'new colonialism of big tech' and much else. Listen wherever you get your shows, or here: zencastr.com/z/At7zGFhV Please subscribe, share, and get in touch!
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor. Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education? By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor
AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.
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My new @truthout.org op-ed on Artificial Bureaucratic Intelligence: truthout.org/articles/ai-...
AI Isn’t Going to Cut Government Bureaucracy — It’s Going to Vastly Worsen It
Trump is pushing a new artificial intelligence-driven bureaucracy to gut public services and use our data to exploit us.
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BBC Mundo article (in Spanish) about Latam-GPT, a Latin American open GenAI project. I am interviewed in the piece, providing a critical response. IMO, projects like this don't do enough to challenge the extractivist and capitalist premises of GenAI. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl... #DataColonialism
Latam-GPT, el proyecto que busca ser el primer modelo de inteligencia artificial colaborativo de América Latina - BBC News Mundo
La iniciativa, que se lanzará a mediados de junio de 2025, busca convertirse en el primer modelo de inteligencia artificial (IA) colaborativo de América Latina y el Caribe, cuya naturaleza promete ser...
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"Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too": a Tech Policy Press op-ed by Nick (@couldrynick.bsky.social) and me www.techpolicy.press/data-colonia...
Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too | TechPolicy.Press
Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias write that applying the lens of data colonialism can help explain DOGE and how to resist it.
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Here's a panel Zach Kaiser and I did on "GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education", hosted by the amazing folks at Future U youtu.be/TNjZZjExglI?...
Mejias and Kaiser on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education
YouTube video by FutureU, Neoliberalism in Higher Education
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FYI, I'll be participating on a forum on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education - Tuesday Feb 18. futureu.education/futureu-foru...
NEXT FUTUREU FORUM: Mejias and Kaiser on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education - Future U
GenAI and Academic Integrity in Higher Education February 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST Join the presentation live on YouTube No cost. The link above takes you to the Forum. Generative Artificial ...
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'This change in what constitutes “mainstream” speech was necessary to prepare the ground for Trump’s new immigration policies, and it signals a convenient and profitable arrangement between those who control data and those who control borders.' www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...
Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown
And the only way to resist it is grassroots mobilisation against the all-powerful broligarchy.
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My new op-ed. Let's stop pretending GenAI is compatible with the values of the university. futureu.education/higher-ed/co...
COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U
By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...
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this is very exciting to hear! Thanks @melhogan.bsky.social
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix@melhogan.bsky.social · 2y agoThis year, no book seems to have had a bigger influence on the grad students I work with than this one 👇 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back by @couldrynick.bsky.social @ Ulises A. Mejias