Michael Kwet is a Senior Researcher of the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. A pioneering scholar at the forefront of digital colonialism, Michael is editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance (2023), author of Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival (Pluto, 2024), and founder of the forthcoming website, PeoplesTech.org. He has also published at outlets like Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Mail & Guardian, Counterpunch and Truthdig. Michael received his PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University, South Africa.

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