{"id":195,"date":"2022-01-06T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/digital-media-off-the-grid\/2022-spring\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=195"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:51:40","slug":"april-26-digital-divides-racialized-indigenous-margins-of-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/digital-media-off-the-grid\/2022-spring\/portfolio\/april-26-digital-divides-racialized-indigenous-margins-of-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"April 26 \u2013\u00a0Digital divides: racialized &#038; indigenous margins of the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neill Selwyn, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1e4y82bKkOlzqBpt7ojDhiHO14Y-A5aOS&amp;authuser=SolomonR%40newschool.edu&amp;usp=drive_fs\">Reconsidering political and popular understandings of the digital divide<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0<em>New Media &amp; Society<\/em>, 2004<\/li>\n<li>Also please watch this video of a talk by Safiya Noble, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gJCVla9xYUs&amp;t=2340s\">Speaking Black, Speaking Back: Counternarrating the Erasure of African American \u2018Technigrationists\u2019<\/a>\u201d, at the\u00a0<em>Command Lines<\/em>\u00a0conference. That link should bring you to the start of her talk, which begins at minute 39 and continues for 20 minutes until the 1 hour mark. For more context, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.sigcis.org\/uploads\/6\/3\/6\/8\/6368912\/command_lines_program.pdf\">Command Lines conference program<\/a> is available here<\/li>\n<li>(Optional.) Andr\u00e9 Brock, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jcmc\/article\/11\/1\/357\/4616688?login=true\">\u2018a Belief in Humanity is a Belief in Colored Men:\u2019 Using Culture to Span the Digital Divide<\/a>\u201c, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2006 (Note: I previously had the wrong date here)<\/li>\n<li>(Optional.) Elise Lemire,\u00a0<em>Black Walden<\/em>, excerpts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Objects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s also think this week about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ernestooroza.com\/category\/technological-disobedience-project\/\">Technological Disobedience project, by Ernesto Oroza<\/a>: an archive of objects that represent hacks, kludges, workarounds, and other forms of vernacular innovation created out of necessity by everyday people in Cuba during times of scarcity. Much of this work was\u00a0documented by the Cuban government itself as <em>Con Nuestros Propios Esfuerzos <\/em>to &#8220;encourage and empower the population to keep building, repairing and reinventing their surroundings.&#8221; How is <em>Con Nuestros Propios Esfuerzos<\/em> (<em>With Our Own Efforts<\/em>) similar and different from DIY culture (&#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221;) and the so-called Maker Movement?<\/p>\n<p>Please read some of this great interview with Oroza here from here from <a href=\"https:\/\/assemblepapers.com.au\/2017\/04\/28\/technological-disobedience-ernesto-oroza\/\">Assemble Papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Big thanks to Amy for bringing this up in class and reminding me of it again, which prompted me to share it with you all this week.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kai Wright, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/anxiety\/episodes\/40-acres-mississippi\">40 Acres in Mississippi<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0<em>The United States of Anxiety<\/em>, January 2020. This is a longer radio segment (45 mints) originally broadcast on WNYC. It discusses another very different take on \u201cback to the lang\u201d than the perspectives we\u2019ve been looking at in class so far. Rather than the off-the-grid folks in the Vannini and Taggart documentary, the New Communalists of Fred Turner\u2019s book, and the radical feminist separatists, this pieces discusses the apocryphal promise of \u201c40 acres and a mule\u201d to formerly enslaved African American people in the US, and how, in this case, that has yielded a commitment among one Black family to self sufficiency and holding on to a plot of farmland for generations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Neill Selwyn, \u201cReconsidering political and popular understandings of the digital divide\u201d,\u00a0New Media &amp; Society, 2004 Also please watch this video of a talk by Safiya Noble, \u201cSpeaking Black, Speaking Back: Counternarrating the Erasure of African American \u2018Technigrationists\u2019\u201d, at the\u00a0Command Lines\u00a0conference. 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