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Whose Technology? Protest, Resistance, and the Reshaping of the Global Village
Two groundbreaking critics and historians of technological effects on culture discuss a re-envisioning of the electronic commons. As reactionary corporate elites reshape our geo-political landscape, possibilities emerge for a radical re-accessment of our relationship to information technology and its use. Finn Brunton and Ramesh Srinivasan rigorously explore the possibilities for grassroots resistance to misinformation campaigns, invasions of privacy, trolling, and offer creative approaches for the rebooting of progressive agendas and effective techniques of re-appropriating technology into the service of democratic principles.
Ramesh Srinivasan celebrates the release of his new book:
Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World
About the speakers:
Finn Brunton (finnb.net) is an Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet and, with Helen Nissenbaum, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest (both MIT Press) and numerous articles and papers. He is currently working on a history of digital cash and utopian currencies.
Ramesh Srinivasan studies the relationship between technology, politics and societies across the world. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 2005 in the Information Studies and Design|Media Arts departments. Srinivasan earned his Ph.D. in design studies at Harvard; his master’s degree in media arts and science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at Stanford. Srinivasan is a regular speaker for TEDx Talks, and makes regular media appearances on NPR, Al Jazeera, “The Young Turks,” and Public Radio International. His writings have been widely published by Al Jazeera English, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post. Visit:http://
Shahid Buttar is the Director of Grassroots Advocacy for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Shahid leads EFF’s community outreach efforts. He’s a constitutional lawyer focused on the intersection of community organizing and policy reform as a lever to shift legal norms, with roots in communities across the country resisting mass surveillance. Visit: www.eff.org/
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