Authors Nick Couldry and Ulises Alí Mejías will discuss their latest book, The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism, with Gloria Steinem Chair Naomi Klein. Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Ulises Alí Mejías is associate professor of Communication Studies, director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, College at Oswego, and a media scholar whose work encompasses critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy and sociology of technology, and political economy of digital media.

Sponsored by: Institute for Women’s Leadership, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, School of Communication and Information