Discussion
Week 2. About last night // ~[instructional] DeSiGn iS mY pAsSiOn~
A lot of social movement + technology discussions begin with Zapatistas on listservs. So we went there, and we took the going-back-to-the-90s theme Very Seriously -- so much that I made them watch key scenes of The Net, hah.
(Shoutout to my beloved @rcarback for enabling my BS always, but also in this instance in particular)
No fun party photos this week — just good ol’ discussion about networking in the early 2000s and the discourse on the digital divide. How did the transition from coaxial to fiber (or 3G), MPLS, and international development “shape” (or not) work to connect the last mile, the next billion, in Accra?
This week, we talked about networked (vs not-networked) social movements and learned about the ways that this interdisciplinary field makes sense of the relationship between mobilization and ICTs. But then some feelings came out during crafting hour...
Oh, and we bedazzled the Panopto camera, just in case it was recording without our consent.