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norma martin

Where Twitter and Feminism Meet | The Nation - 0 views

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shared by norma martin on 21 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • norma martin on 21 Apr 14
     
    An interesting question: What role should the social platform play as the feminist movement continues to grow?
Lari Tanner

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is | Whatever - 0 views

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shared by Lari Tanner on 24 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Lari Tanner on 24 Feb 14
     
    Here's Scalzi's other blog post about the "Straight White Male" it is also mentioned in the article I mentioned in my earlier post. They are both very compelling.
purplekimchi

Unintended - and Anti-Social - Consequences of Social Media Use - 0 views

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shared by purplekimchi on 06 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Simultaneously, though, we must understand that Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other profit-driven companies are not neutral platforms for these conversations.
  • tech industrialists are the Rockefellers of this century, with profit, not innovation or the social good, as their primary motive
  • The lobby group FWD.us, brought to us by founders and investors of Facebook, LinkedIn and Spotify, among others, famously supported the Keystone XL oil pipeline with millions in pro-pipeline advertising
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  • Peers.org, an initiative launched by "sharing economy" companies like the home-subletting site Airbnb, have resisted government regulation, even as disability advocates fear services like the "rideshare" service Uber are increasing inequality between people with and without disabilities
  • they're doing everything they can to avoid paying taxes
  • gentrification
  • San Francisco has lost at least 40 percent of its black population since 1990, more than any other major city
  • But the fact is tech companies continue the practices of devaluation of racialized and feminized labor on a global scale
  • There are no easy answers
  • Another answer is for tech workers to, in tech lingo, disrupt the industry's exploitation by developing alternative tools for connecting us all. Firefox, LibreOffice, PirateBay, Wikipedia and WordPress are all widely used technology-based tools created by organizations that don't count profit as their foremost objective.
  • More important, we can organize with and support the media and activists that already are doing this work, like the Bay Area's POOR Magazine
  • purplekimchi on 06 Mar 14
     
    A more nuanced approach to the social media is anti-social argument
purplekimchi

Not All Men: A Brief History of Every Dude's Favorite Argument | TIME.com - 0 views

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shared by purplekimchi on 30 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • purplekimchi on 30 Apr 14
     
    Really smart and detailed analysis of the rise of the "not all men" meme in online discussions of sexism. The kind of analysis could be a model for an EMAC 6300 essay.
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