On 15 May, 16:00 to 17:30 hours in the Utrecht University Museum‘s Bovenzaal, the focus area Governing the Digital Society hosts a lecture by Nick Couldry titled: ‘The space of the world – can human solidarity survive social media and what if it can’t?’.

Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and also a succesful author. His latest book ‘The Space of the World’ was published in October 2024.

Couldry will reflect on the global space of social communications and interaction that has been constructed over the past three decades through a commercialized internet and the emergence of digital platforms whose business model depends on the extraction of data from their users and the shaping of user behaviour in order to optimize user behaviour that will generate advertising value.