Michael Kwet

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 New York Times, The Intercept, Wired, Mail & Guardian, and Truthdig.