GloTech Lab
@GloTechLab
The Global Technology for Social Justice Lab @umass is a research hub & trust network for scholars & practitioners in critical tech & global studies
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https://glotechlab.net/ 28-03-2024 00:18:40
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Come hang out with our #GloTechLab fellows (Jonathan Corpus Ong, Nora Süren Lizhen Zhao Jane Yeahin Pyo, Larri Miller, M.S. (she/they)) at AoIR 2024 in Sheffield, UK AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected]
With my brilliant friends at Knight First Amendment Institute, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerma…
#GloTechLab Community Lead Prof. Seyram Avle Seyram Avle and co-author Prof. Jean Hardy Jean Hardy discuss techno-optimism in the latest The Conversation U.S. article. Read here: tinyurl.com/mr2tt4w8
🥳 #GloTechLab research lead
Burcu Baykurt just published a new essay “Corporate Capture” Data & Society anthology👇 datasociety.net/library/keywor……
'...transactional ties, where the tech industry deliberately exploits cash-strapped public institutions and asserts its expertise in data science. Under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have turned the state into a reliant client.' -Burcu Baykurt GloTech Lab
Thank you so much 'Calling Out and Calling In: How to Globalize the Tech & Democracy Space (and still get funded)' panelists for your candid conversation! Meetali Jain, Adam Fivenson, Toni Friedman, Herman Wasserman,
Dhanaraj Thakur (@[email protected]), & our brilliant moderator
Burcu Baykurt🔥 #GloTechLab
Panel 3, 'Global Elections 2024: India, South Korea, South Africa, Ghana and the USA' was incredible! 🔥📷 Thank you Heesoo Jang, Herman Wasserman, Seyram Avle, Kathy Roberts Forde and Ethan Zuckerman for moderating!
Nurturer archetype is needed when creating a container intending for bold and courageous visioning and action, for community leaders and engaged scholars too often burntout from extractivist relations. Thank you Martha Fuentes for holding this space and looking fire doing it 🔥
First time to hear Heesoo Jang speak and already buzzing with ideas for new schemes and projects UMass Amherst 🔥
We are so thrilled that one of our rockstar panelists, Heesoo Jang, will be joining us at the UMass Journalism dept.! 🤩 #GloTechLab
🔥🔥🔥 incredible panel with Kathy Roberts Forde, Heesoo Jang, Seyram Avle, and Herman Wasserman