Submitter: Kenia Hale, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, kenia.hale@princeton.edu
Abstract:
This workshop will center on a project we created through Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab titled “Liberatory Technology and Digital Marronage.” Throughout that project, we selected and evaluated different types of technology and collected liberatory forms of that tool in a GitHub repository. Based on our analysis throughout the semester, this Github functions as a liberatory technology toolbox for organizers and activists. Recognizing that existing digital interventions aren’t always successful, we explored how to design technology centered on liberation and digital marronage while honoring community knowledge. We asked: how do individuals protect themselves from the state while also being able to dance in the sun? Our research culminated in our GitHub repository, a liberatory technology proposed by RAs, and a zine to illustrate our research findings, which we’ll present to participants. Our zine concluded with our Liberatory Technology Principles: Broadening Our Definitions of Technology Recognizing Technology is Never Neutral Expanding Our Imaginations Centering Community Knowledge Systemic Problems Require Systemic Change In this workshop, we will lead hands-on radical technology imagining sessions, encouraging participants to play and design with our liberatory technology principles in mind.
Areas of STS Scholarship: Information, Computing and Media Technology, Race/Black studies and STS, Social Movements and STS
Authors/Participants: Kenia Hale, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab
Payton Croskey, Co-Lead
