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I am a research lab and trust network for scholars and practitioners in critical tech and global studies. Join and witness my birth on April 19, 2024. #GloTechLaunch #GloTechLab
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GloTech Lab
@GloTechLab
The Global Technology for Social Justice Lab @umass is a research hub & trust network for scholars & practitioners in critical tech & global studies
Amherst, MA & Global Joined Mart 2024
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We are excited to host “The Phoenix of Gaza XR,” a virtual reality exhibit about Gaza created by Naim Aburaddi & Ahlam Muhtaseb, and a keynote panel featuring them & Helga Tawil-Souri, on Feb 24-25 at ILC. @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass
Details & registration: glotechlab.net/the-phoenix-of…
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We're excited to co-sponsor @eszter's talk this Friday (11/15) at 130 PM in the Communication Hub! Professor Hargittai will talk about digital inequality in older adults' technology use. Join us if you're around! @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass @UMassCommDept
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Thanks to @pyo_jane for a fantastic talk today. We can't wait for the book!
UMassCommunication@UMassCommDept
Today at noon:
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Our inaugural postdoc in race and digital politics, @pyo_jane, will give a talk this Friday on the new modes of contentious politics in South Korea. It's at noon in the Communication Hub (ILC 301). Do not miss it! @UMassCommDept @SBS_UMass @UMassAmherst
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We’re excited for next week’s public talk delivered by no other than @GloTechLab's inaugural Postdoc in Race and Digital Politics @pyo_jane. Dr Pyo is a global media and political communication scholar with a focus on digital technology and democracy & mediated civic engagement.
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Join us TODAY at noon in the Communication Hub to hear Professor @bilgeyesil1 talk about her new book, Talking Back to the West! press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087… @UMassCommDept @SBS_UMass @UMassAmherst
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Come hang out with our #GloTechLab fellows (@jonathan_c_ong, @norasuren @zlz106 @pyo_jane, @larri_mill) at AoIR 2024 in Sheffield, UK @AoIR_org
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Vittoria Elliott has a great overview of our arguments and what's at stake in the case in her piece for @WIRED: wired.com/story/meta-sec…
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GloTech News: New publication by GloTech Lead Burcu Baykurt entitled "Corporate Capture" published in Data & Society anthology: buff.ly/44p0rtB
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With my brilliant friends at @knightcolumbia, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerma…
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#GloTechLab Community Lead Prof. Seyram Avle @seyramavle and co-author Prof. Jean Hardy @jean__hardy discuss techno-optimism in the latest @ConversationUS article. Read here: tinyurl.com/mr2tt4w8
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🥳 #GloTechLab research lead
@BuBaykurt just published a new essay “Corporate Capture” @datasociety anthology👇 datasociety.net/library/keywor……
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"...transactional ties, where the tech industry deliberately exploits cash-strapped public institutions and asserts its expertise in data science. Under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have turned the state into a reliant client." -@BuBaykurt @GloTechLab
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Thank you, @valpaskar! ✨🤩
Val Paskar@valpaskar
Congrats on a fabulous launch @GloTechLab and thank you for allowing me to entertain your brilliant participants with some tunes!💽🔊 Here is the playlist that I arranged for the event if anyone wanted to check it out open.spotify.com/playlist/7db1N…
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Thank you so much "Calling Out and Calling In: How to Globalize the Tech & Democracy Space (and still get funded)" panelists for your candid conversation! Meetali Jain, @afivenson, @ToniFriedman, @hwasser,
@thakurdhanaraj, & our brilliant moderator
@BuBaykurt🔥 #GloTechLab
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Panel 3, "Global Elections 2024: India, South Korea, South Africa, Ghana and the USA" was incredible! 🔥📷 Thank you @HeesooJang2, @hwasser, @seyramavle, @krforde and @EthanZ for moderating!
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Nurturer archetype is needed when creating a container intending for bold and courageous visioning and action, for community leaders and engaged scholars too often burntout from extractivist relations. Thank you @MarthaFuentes for holding this space and looking fire doing it 🔥
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@MarthaFuentes is such an important part of our team 🔥🔥 #GloTechLab
Jonathan Corpus Ong@jonathan_c_ong
Nurturer archetype is needed when creating a container intending for bold and courageous visioning and action, for community leaders and engaged scholars too often burntout from extractivist relations. Thank you @MarthaFuentes for holding this space and looking fire doing it 🔥
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