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Can Technology Serve Social Justice?<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Virginia Eubanks, SUNY-Albany<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 5:30PM</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Champaign Public Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span>Virginia Eubanks</span></b><span> is the author of
<i>Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age</i> (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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u>ALSO<u></u></p>
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<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:16px">Listen to WILL-AM (580)</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri">
Monday, September 10, 10-11am for an on-air phone interview with Virginia Eubanks</span></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u> <u></u></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Join
us at </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri">NOON</span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri">, </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Thursday,
September 13</span>, </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Inclusions and Exclusions Reading Group, Room 341 Library and Information Science Building, 501 E. Daniel
St., Champaign <a href="http://publish.illinois.edu/inclusivegslis/upcoming-activity-or-reading" target="_blank">http://publish.illinois.edu/inclusivegslis/upcoming-activity-or-reading</a>/</span></span></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">Sponsored by the proposed
<b>Center for Digital Inclusion</b>, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cdi.lis.illinois.edu/cdi/?p=86" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri">http://cdi.lis.illinois.edu/cdi/?p=86</font></a></p>
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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 <u></u><u></u></p>
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With the Champaign County Health Care Consumers and the Independent Media Center<u></u><u></u></p>
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Contact Sharon Irish, <a href="mailto:slirish@illinois.edu" target="_blank">slirish@illinois.edu</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<br clear="all"></p></div></div></div></span></div></div>-- <br>Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.<br>303 W. Locust St.<br>Urbana, IL 61801<br><a href="mailto:briandolinar@gmail.com" target="_blank">briandolinar@gmail.com</a><br>