Cogut Institute Undergraduate Fellow Alexander Ávila speaks about his research in this lightning talk as part of “Meet the Fellows: Spring 2023 Edition.” He is a concentrator in sociology, with interests in sociological theory, critical theory, political sociology, and social media. His honors thesis, “Digital Colonization: Pandemic Resistance in Postmodernity” (title in progress), reformulates Jürgen Habermas’ theory of colonization through the case studies of antimask and antivaccine movements in Chiapas, Mexico, and Orange County, California.
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Recorded on February 2, 2023. Presented by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University.