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“The Space of the World: Digital Platforms and the Prospects for Human Solidarity in the 21st Century”, Nick Couldry gives a keynote at Instituto de Estudos Avançados da USP.
Recorded in 28 April 2023.
Data Sovereignty seminar 3: Resisting Data Colonialism: The Benefits and Limits of Data Sovereignty.
Recorded in June 2022.
‘Colonized by Data', keynote to conference on Digital Platforms in the Global South Paris (with Ulises Mejias).
Recorded in June 2021
Super Connected Conversations with musician Tim Arnold.
Recorded in June 2021.
Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias discuss the Costs of connection with Mutale Nkonde of AI for the People/Stanford.
Recorded in February 2021
This session was part of the EXALT Symposium 2020 organized by the Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT) held online in October 2020.
Recorded in 29 October 2020
Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias discuss “The Costs of Connection” with Safiya Umoja Noble (UCLA).
Recorded on 5 June, 2020.
In Helsinki, Nick Couldry delivers a lecture on “Data Colonialism and the Hollowing Out of the Social World”.
Recorded on 7 February 2020.
Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias discuss data colonialism at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla.
Recorded on 7 November 2019, in San Andrés Cholula (Mexico).
At the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society (Harvard University), Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias discuss their book, ”The Costs of Connection”.
Recorded in Cambridge (US) on 19 September 2019.
Visting Brazil, Nick Couldry talks with Melina Meimaridis (Universidade Federal Fluminense) on the future of media studies, television and datafication.
Recorded on 17 May 2019 in Niterói.
Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias are featured in an Al-Jazeera film about data and colonialism.
Published online on 10 July 2019.
“Los Costos de la Conexión: Como los Datos Afectan la Vida Humana". Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, with comments from María Teresa Quiroz, Universidad de Lima and Francisco Osorio, profesor de la Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Universidad Científica del Sur.
Recorded in 19 November 2020.
“Los Costos de la Conexión”, talk to #EncuentroVirtual Buenos Aires.
Recorded in July 2020.
At an event of the University of Hyderabad (India), Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias discuss their book.
Recorded in June 2020.
Lecture about data colonialism delivered by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias in Ciudad de México.
Recorded in November 2019.
In discussion with Naomi Klein at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias give a talk about their book, “The Costs of Connection”.
Recorded on 16 September 2019, in New Brunswick (US).
At the Datafied Society research centre (Utrecht University), Nick Couldry delivers the lecture “The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism: Why Critical Social Theory Still Matters!”.
Recorded on 12 June 2019 in Utrecht.
Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp launch The Mediated Construction of Reality at the International "Communicative Figurations" Conference.
Recorded on 8 December 2016 at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communications and Information Research, University of Bremen.
Nick Couldry lectures on data and colonisation at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).
Recorded on 20 November 2018 in Berlin.
Nick Couldry delivers the keynote lecture, "The Social Construction of Reality- Really!" at Kappa Phi's First International Communication Conference.
Recorded on 25 June 2016 at the Banja Luka College of Communications.
Nick Couldry is invited to the University of Colorado to lecture on "Reconstructing Journalism's Public Rationale".
Recorded in April 2014 at The University of Colorado, Boulder.
Nick Couldry speaks at the 'Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System' conference.
Recorded on 2 July 2013 at the University of York.
Nick Couldry challenges 'Digital Age' myths about social media platforms and the value of 'Big Data'.
Recorded on 21 November 2013 at LSE.
Professor Nick Couldry presents "The Myth of Big Data" at the 14th Social Study of ICTs Workshop.
Recorded on 19 May 2014 at LSE.
Dr. Luis Sa Mauro Martino discusses Nick Couldry's work on "Why Voice Matters".
Recorded on 7 April 2015.
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Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias discuss the book The Costs of Connection .
Originally posted on 26 June 2021.
In the podcast of the “Culture, Power and Politics” seminar, Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias discuss aspects of their book on data colonialism (“Costs of Connection”).
Originally posted on 9 July 2019.
Nick Couldry discusses the article "Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject" with the editor of “Television & News Media” Jonathan Corpus Ong.
Originally posted on 17 December 2018.
Toby Miller of the culturalstudies podcast speaks with Nick Couldry about his work and writing on media and social theory.
Originally posted on 1 August 2011.
In this episode of the “Digital Sociology” podcast, Nick Couldry talks about his recent work on digital data, colonialism and mediatization.
Originally posted on 19 February 2019.
Co-presenting for The University of Sydney and Sydney Ideas, Nick Couldry discusses how internet-based connectivity leads to the construction of a social world based on the permanent monitoring of all actors and the processing of the resulting data.
Originally Posted on 12 April 2016.
In this podcast, Jeff Pooley speaks with Nick Couldry about the release of his book Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice.
Originally posted on 4 February 2013.
Online and PRINT
“AI as colonial knowledge production: The resistance begins here”
In this piece for University World News, Nick Couldry discusses the relationship between AI and data colonialism, where there are clear centres of power and coding elites that provide a different landscape for thinking about knowledge production beyond the technology itself.
Originally published 11 April 2023.
“Getting Cash for Our Data Could Actually Make Things Worse”
Drawing on concepts developed in their book, The Costs of Connection, Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejías criticise the suggestion of paying users for their personal data.
Originally published 25 October 2019.
“Colonialismo de Dados Ameaça Liberdade e Dá Gás à 'Guerra Fria' EUA x China” (in Portuguese)
In an interview with Kaluan Bernardo for UOL, a leading Brazilian journalistic website, Nick Couldry explores the meaning and consequences of data colonialism.
Originally published 25 May 2019.
“Novo Colonialismo Não Explora Apenas Riquezas Naturais, Explora Nossos Dados” (in Portuguese)
Nick Couldry’s work on data colonialism is discussed in this piece published by Jornal da USP, a website of the University of São Paulo. He was interviewed by Denis Pacheco.
Originally published 20 May 2019.
"Reassessing the Price of Connection"
In this blogpost for the Enhancing Life Project, Professor Couldry examines the potential contradiction between the promise of online connection and its practical reality, taking into further consideration the complexities of the conditions under which it is, or is not, possible to enhance life in today's digital world.
Originally published 7 July 2016.
"Data and the Expansion of Human Freedom: A Q & A with Dr. Nick Couldry"
Nick Couldry discusses his current research for the Enhancing Life Project. He details the inspiration behind the project, the sources and methods used to address theresearch question, and the challenges he has encountered thusfar.
Originally published 5 July 2016.
In an interview with Ashish Sen, Professor Nick Couldry not only elaborates on the distinction between voice as process and voice as value, but also stresses the importance of re-examining how Community Media is valued.
Originally published on 24 December 2015.