[IMC] SAVE THE DATES: Sept 12 + 13 + 15, 2012

[Brian Dolinar]

LECTURE TITLE: * Can Technology Serve Social Justice?*

Virginia Eubanks, SUNY-Albany****

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 5:30PM****

*Free *

Champaign Public Library****

200 West Green St. ****

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ABSTRACT: Despite widespread celebrations of Twitter Revolutions and social
media activism, the relationship between new technology and the social
justice goals of peace, freedom, equality and dignity for all people is
deeply contradictory. In this talk, scholar-activist Virginia Eubanks will
reflect on fifteen years of efforts with three grassroots
organizations--Our Knowledge, Our Power: Surviving Welfare, the Popular
Technology Workshops, and Women at the YWCA Making Social Movement-- to
make technology serve the needs of oppressed and exploited people in the
United States.      ****

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*Virginia Eubanks* is the author of *Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social
Justice in the Information Age* (MIT Press, 2011), and the cofounder of two
grassroots community organizations focused on making technology serve
social and economic justice: Our Knowledge, Our Power: Surviving Welfare
(OKOP) and the Popular Technology Workshops. She teaches in the Department
of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. ****

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**ALSO**

   - Listen to WILL-AM (580) Monday, September 10, 10-11am for an on-air
   phone interview with Virginia Eubanks

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   - ** **Join us at NOON, Thursday, September 13, Inclusions and
   Exclusions Reading Group, Room 341 Library and Information Science
   Building, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign
   http://publish.illinois.edu/inclusivegslis/upcoming-activity-or-reading/

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Sponsored by the proposed *Center for Digital Inclusion*, Graduate School
of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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http://cdi.lis.illinois.edu/cdi/?p=86

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Co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study, the Gender and Women’s
Studies Program, the Mix IT Up! Youth Advocacy Project funded by the US
Institute of Museum and Library Services, Action Research Illinois, and the
Women’s Resources Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ****

With the Champaign County Health Care Consumers and the Independent Media
Center****

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Contact Sharon Irish, slirish at illinois.edu****


-- 
Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
303 W. Locust St.
Urbana, IL 61801
briandolinar at gmail.com
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