#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
Activists also have a key role to play. They can give themselves impeccable training in all aspects of digital literacy. They can insist on digital literacy curricula in the K–12 classrooms of all communities, especially marginalized communities and communities of color. They can use social media to organize actions but not to conduct meaningful di
... See moreClyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
but it has little to say about values, community accountability or control, or the ultimate distribution of benefits such as profits or attention.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
As late as 2011, journalists and technologists were praising social media’s emancipatory power in light of the role of Facebook and Twitter in the Arab Spring revolts. But, as has been noted many times, after the U.S. presidential election in 2016, such optimism increasingly appeared naïve and misguided. Now Facebook and Twitter are seen as corrosi... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
Design justice practitioners choose to work in solidarity with and amplify the power of community-based organizations.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
“Instead of starting with the dichotomy between global force and local response, these methods show the importance of contingent and botched encounters in shaping both business-as-usual and its radical refusals.”
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
Education is usually seen as a high-leverage way of addressing these issues.