Author meets Critics: Data Power, Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance
Type: Virtual Panel
Day: 2/25/2022
Start Time: 9:40 AM
End Time: 11:00 AM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Digital Geographies Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Craig Dalton
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Chairs(s):
Jin-Kyu Jung, University of Washington Bothell
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Description:
In recent years, popular media have inundated audiences with sensationalised headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their regularity, such accounts treat each case as unprecedented and unique.
Using examples as varied as writings on the first telephones to the experiences of a feminist collective for migrant women in Spain, Thatcher and Dalton (2021) makes the case that through intentional use of these technologies pathways open for subversion, resistance, and solidarity. In the face of the at times seemingly inevitable dominance of corporate interests, they argue these technologies allow for the creation of new spaces of affinity, and a new politics of change.
This session brings together scholars with a diverse set of political and theoretical commitments engaged in work on similar topics to Thatcher and Dalton. With the goal of fostering a critical, nuanced discussion on the work, the comments from this session will be collected in Urban Geography.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
Role | Participant |
Introduction | Jin-Kyu Jung |
Panelist | Will Payne Rutgers University |
Panelist | Eric Nost University of Guelph |
Panelist | Julia Wagner Clark University |
Panelist | Jennifer Clark Ohio State University |
Discussant | Craig Dalton Hofstra University |
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Author meets Critics: Data Power, Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance
Description
Virtual Panel
Contact the Primary Organizer
Jim Thatcher - thatchja@oregonstate.edu