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Amelia Gibson and Rua Williams explore academic scholarship and public discussion around disability access and accessibility and problematize the idea that disabled people truly have access to technology in contexts where they do not control technology.
Hector Beltran presents the phenomena of hacking and the hackathon. It also addresses issues of access and equity in how racialized, gendered, classed, or other marginalized social groups can undertake hacking or how they are treated within hacking spaces.
For the tech boom to be just, it must center the voices of workers.
In this essay, Dr. Gil reflects on his career as a Digital Scholarship Librarian – helping faculty and students navigate advanced forms of computation and engineering in order to do their work – and discusses how his role allows him to assist researchers to take more control of their digital production through mobilized scholarship.
One Friday evening, while scrolling through Twitter, I saw an unusually long thread from a Black blogger/influencer I had been following for years. This person had been experiencing weeks of […]
As part of our “What Is Just Tech?” series, we invited several social researchers—scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists—to respond to a simple yet fundamental question: “What is just technology?” This […]
So when I talked to Aksu in November, I made sure to use Signal, an encrypted phone app, to protect our discussion about psychological trauma afflicting Uyghurs overseas. The next […]
By Phelim Kine
Dementia content gets billions of views on TikTok. Whose story does it tell? | MIT Technology Review
“That’s a conversation that people with dementia have been having now for a while,” says Kate Swaffer, a cofounder of Dementia Alliance International, an advocacy group whose members all live […]
By Abby OhlibeiserThis report is the second of two analyzing the insights of hundreds of technology experts who responded in the summer of 2021 to a canvassing of their predictions about the […]
By Janna Anderson and Lee RainieTimnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues […]
Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and […]