The Centre for
Technology Enhanced Learning
and The Centre for
Social Justice and Well-Being
are delighted to welcome you
to a
to be given by the leading
scholar and activist
Virginia
Eubanks, Associate Professor, Women's Studies,
University at Albany, State University of New York
University at Albany, State University of New York
Can Technology
Serve Social Justice?
at 4.30pm, on Wednesday 10th
July 2013
Despite widespread celebrations of Twitter
Revolutions and social media activism, the relationship between new technology
and the social justice goals of peace, freedom, equality and dignity for all
people is deeply contradictory. In this talk, scholar-activist Virginia Eubanks
will reflect on fifteen years of efforts with three grassroots organizations -
Our Knowledge, Our Power: Surviving Welfare; the Popular Technology Workshops;
and Women at the YWCA Making Social Movement - to make technology serve the
needs of oppressed and exploited people in the United
States.
Virginia Eubanks is the author of Digital Dead
End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age, and the co-founder of
a number of grassroots community organizations focused on making technology
serve social and economic justice. She teaches in the Department of Women's
Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. In past lives, she edited the
cyber-feminist 'zine Brillo and was active in the community technology
center movements in the San Francisco Bay Area and Troy, NY.
Please
note: spaces are limited for this event.
To
reserve your seat: RSVP by email to Joanne Dickinson at jo.dickinson@lancaster.ac.uk
