The myth of data as a non-rival resource needs to be abandoned.
Ulises Ali Mejias
Ulises A. Mejias is professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego, recipient of the 2023 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, an... d a Fulbright Specialist from 2021 to 2025. His most recent book (co-authored with Nick Couldry) is ‘The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism; (2019, Stanford University Press). Their new book, ‘Data Grab’, is coming out in 2024.
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