Ulises A Mejías is Professor of Communication Studies and director of the Institute for Global Engagement at SUNY Oswego. From 2021 to 2025, he is a Fulbright Specialist fellow. He is the co-founder of the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement and the network Tierra Común. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Humanities New York, a National Endowment for the Humanities affiliate. His research interests include critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy of technology, sociology of communication, and political economy of digital media. His new book, co-authored with Nick Couldry, is The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism. His previous book, Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (2013), was published by University of Minnesota Press.