[Peace] Can Technology Serve Social Justice? / Wednesday, September 12, 2012, at 5:30PM at the Champaign Public Library, 200 West Green Street, Champaign Illinois

[Karen Medina]

Can Technology Serve Social Justice?

That is the question that Dr. Virginia Eubanks of the State University
of New York at Albany will ask during her free public lecture:

      Wednesday, September 12, 2012, at
      5:30PM
      at the Champaign Public Library, 200 West Green Street, Champaign Illinois

In this talk, Dr. 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.

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.

Sponsored by the proposed Center for Digital Inclusion, Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, with generous support from the Center for Advanced
Study

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

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

[This was posted on the webpage for the Center for Digital Inclusion
at GSLIS, http://cdi.lis.illinois.edu/cdi/?p=86 ]