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Topic: Critical Computing Seminar with Prof. David Nemer
Time: Sep 28, 2022 11:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Dear Colleagues,
The Critical Computing Seminar for the academic year 2022-2023 starts
online next week. Our first speaker is Dr. David Nemer from the University
of Virginia, who will discuss his newly published book, "Technology of the
Oppressed." We cordially invite you to this seminar.
Please find below the details for attending the seminar. Also, please feel
free to forward this invitation to the people in your network who might be
interested in this topic.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
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Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Faculty Fellow, Schwartz Reisman Institute <https://www.torontosri.ca/>
The University of Toronto
Program Committee Chair, ICTD 2022 <https://ictd.org/ictd2022/>
Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 5262
Saint George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada
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web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
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From: Priyank Chandra <priyank.chandra(a)utoronto.ca>
Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 3:40 PM
Subject: Critical Computing Seminar (Sep 28): "Technology of the Oppressed"
by David Nemer
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Dear All,
We are happy to announce the *September* edition of the Critical Computing
seminar series. This month Dr. David Nemer, Assistant Professor in the
Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, will present a
book talk “*Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane
in Favelas of Brazil*”, on *Wednesday, September 28, 11am to 12:30pm*. The
book is Open Access and available for download
<https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5266/Technology-of-the-OppressedI…>
.
We invite you all to join the seminar. Please check the following link for
more details about the seminar:
https://sites.google.com/view/uoft-critical-computing/seminar-series/david-….
The registration link is at: http://bit.ly/CCS_DavidNemer
I have appended the seminar details at the bottom of this email. Please
feel free to forward this invitation to anyone interested (within and
outside UofT).
The Critical Computing Seminar Series is a monthly online seminar where we
invite scholars to discuss topics in critical computing. The objective of
the seminar is to create a broader understanding of computing from
different ethical, social, and cultural perspectives. You will find more
information about this seminar series and past and upcoming speakers by
following the link:
https://sites.google.com/view/uoft-critical-computing/seminar-series.
We look forward to seeing you all at the seminar.
Best Regards,
Priyank Chandra (On behalf of the Organizers)
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
University of Toronto
*Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas
of Brazil *
*David Nemer*, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University
of Virginia, USA
*Website:* https://www.dnemer.com/
*Twitter:* @davidnemer
*Time:* 28 September, 2022 from 11AM - 12.30 PM, EST
*Abstract:* In this seminar, David Nemer discusses how Brazilian favela
residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the
oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world.
Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides
or the outskirts of a city. In his latest book, Technology of the
Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide
a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community
technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the
structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those
oppressed by technology don't just reject it, but consciously resist and
appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable
them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression—and
even, at times, to flourish. Nemer uses a decolonial and intersectional
framework called Mundane Technology as an analytical tool to understand how
digital technologies can simultaneously be sites of oppression and tools in
the fight for freedom. Building on the work of the Brazilian educator and
philosopher Paulo Freire, he shows how the favela residents appropriate
everyday technologies—technological artifacts (cell phones, Facebook),
operations (repair), and spaces (Telecenters and Lan Houses)—and use them
to alleviate the oppression in their everyday lives. He also addresses the
relationship of misinformation to radicalization and the rise of the new
far right. Contrary to the simplistic techno-optimistic belief that
technology will save the poor, even with access to technology these
marginalized people face numerous sources of oppression, including
technological biases, racism, classism, sexism, and censorship. Yet the
spirit, love, community, resilience, and resistance of favela residents
make possible their pursuit of freedom.
*Bio:* David Nemer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media
Studies at the University of Virginia. He is a Faculty Associate at Harvard
University's Berkman Klein Center, a Visiting Scholar in The Institute for
Rebooting Social Media, and an Affiliated Scholar at Princeton University's
Brazil Lab. Nemer is the author of Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press,
2022) and Favela Digital: The other side of technology (Editora GSA, 2013).
He holds a MA in Anthropology from the University of Virginia, an MS in
Computer Science from Saarland University, and a Ph.D. in Computing,
Culture, and Society from Indiana University. Nemer has written for The
Guardian, El País, The Huffington Post (HuffPost), Salon, and The
Intercept_.