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Please join us at the CAMRI seminar in central London Thursday next week. Data Colonialism and the Hollowing Out of the Social World Nick Couldry (London School of Economics and Political Science) Date: Thursday, 5 March 2020 Time: 17.00-19.00 Place: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW Room: RS UG04 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-colonialism-and-the-hollowing-out-of-the-social-world-tickets-91752882341 This talk will introduce the argument of Nick’s recent book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (co-authored with Ulises Mejias, Stanford University Press, August 2019) and foreground its implications for the social world and social knowledge. The talk will argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This new "data colonialism" is based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data, paving the way for a further stage of capitalism. The new social and economic order being constructed through data processes make most sense within the long historical arc of attempts to appropriate resources and knowledge within colonialism. This new order creates new dependencies on platforms through which data is extracted, and also produces new forms of social discrimination, based on a reinvention of social knowledge. The result is a hollowing out of the social world, which for corporate capitalism takes on the paradoxical form of an emerging new social domain available for endless exploitation and manipulation. Resistance requires challenging forms of coloniality that, even if in different material forms, decolonial thinking has foregrounded for centuries. Biography Nick Couldry (@couldrynick<https://twitter.com/couldrynick>) is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and from 2017 has been a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. In fall 2018 he was also a Visiting Professor at MIT. He jointly led, with Clemencia Rodriguez, the chapter on media and communications in the 22 chapter 2018 report of the International Panel on Social Progress: www.ipsp.org. He is the author or editor of fourteen books including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, Polity, 2016), Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters (Sage 2010). His latest books are The Costs of Connection (with Ulises Ali Mejias, Stanford UP 2019) and Media: Why It Matters (Polity 2019). Further CAMRI Seminars this term: Thursday, 19 March 2020 Victor Pickard (University of Pennsylvania) - Reimagining Journalism: Commercial Collapse and Post-Capitalist Alternatives https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimagining-journalism-commercial-collapse-post-capitalist-alternatives-tickets-91753458063 Thursday, 26 March 2020 Elinor Carmi (Liverpool University) - Tuning into Media Distortions or, What Do Deviant Media Categories Mean? https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tuning-into-media-distortions-or-what-do-deviant-media-categories-mean-tickets-91753793065 Thursday, 9 April 2020 Didem Özkul (UCL) - Machine Learning on the Move: Politics of Location Data, Mobilities, and Algorithmic Decision-Making https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/politics-of-location-data-mobilities-and-algorithmic-decision-making-tickets-91754465075 The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. 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