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In her recent book Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin, Jordan Kraemer examines how young adults in Berlin in the first decades of this century used social media and the internet to express German identity in a cosmopolitan context that was acceptable though overtime these spaces became polarized. In this excerpt, Kraemer looks at the tactics young Germans used to get online.
In this essay, 2023 Data Fluencies Grantee Sanjana Krishnan examines how the municipal governments of various Indian cities have been using satellite imagery to clear informal housing settlements. In particular, she looks at the case of Mumbai and how this technology undermines the rights of those living in these settlements.
In this essay, 2023 Data Fluencies Dissertation Research Grantee Zhaowen Guo examines how the public interacts with and views the surveillance state in China, focusing not just on the technological systems used but the human agents who interact with people enforcing rules and deterring dissent.
Nikita Sonavane has worked as a criminal defense attorney and legal researcher for nearly seven years. She is the cofounder of the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project (CPAProject), an […]
Just Tech Program Officer Ever Bussey interviews Just Tech Fellow Tawana Petty about how data extraction and surveillance impact marginalized communities, working with policymakers, and how to address the proliferation of artificial intelligence in an inclusive and consentful manner.
The following passage is from Zara Rahman’s new book Machine Readable Me: The Hidden Ways Tech Shapes Our Identities. Rahman is an author and researcher investigating the intersection of power, […]
Zara Rahman is a British-Bangladeshi author and researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of power, technology and justice. Her book, Machine Readable Me: The Hidden Ways Tech Shapes Our […]
Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, gender, and social infrastructure within digital technologies. Using […]
Just Tech invited several practitioners and researchers to respond to a simple yet fundamental question: “What is just technology?” This interview was conducted by Just Tech editor Rodrigo Ugarte, who […]
Hamid Khan is an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. The mission of the Coalition is to build community-based power to dismantle police surveillance, spying, and infiltration programs. The […]
Danielle Blunt is a sex worker, community organizer, public health researcher, and the cofounder of Hacking//Hustling, a collective of sex workers and accomplices working at the intersection of tech and […]