In the four posts that I have previously written on this blog, I have reflected in a free, relaxed way about new technologies and social change. I have tried to contemplate issues such as voice, discourse, and power, and agency and perspective concerning digital transformation. In this fifth post, I …
As I discussed in my previous post, the COVID-19 crisis has undoubtedly triggered a further disruption in the technology sector. From AI, to sterilizing robots, to rapid developments of new technology being reappropriated in ways we have never seen before, we have seen organisations and businesses turn to technology during …
Three women running a movement that is uniting activists to participate in online and offline protests, addressing inequality, and pushing for social and political change is powerful. The Black Lives Matter movement is teaching us how a social movement can initiate social change, combine digital activism with traditional protests and …
What a year! Hope this finds you as well as possible. Given the challenges we’re facing in this pandemic, campaigning and online activism has become even more important. So I was super excited to come across Zeynep Tufecki’s work, Twitter and Teargas, which is packed full of insights and recommendations, …
V is for Visibility; we ponder who is invisible on internet mediums Does a poor single mother who works 12 hours a day to provide for her family, takes care of house chores, makes a meal, follows up with her children’s schoolwork, looks after her retired father who has minimum retiring …
