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ODEI Spotlight: Inclusive Technology, Provocations for Research and Design
March 15, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Abstract: Perceptions of digital technology have grown increasingly cynical over the last decade, fueled by crises from the Snowden leaks to Cambridge Analytica to disinformation campaigns. Critical thinking about who is accommodated and who is excluded by mainstream technology is crucial for living up to promises of technology as empowering, but what do these reflections look like on a practical level? This talk reviews feminist critiques of technology and describes how otherness has been imagined in research on human computing interaction. Thinking about how practitioners and researchers imagine their users, particularly users on the margins, we can see key gaps in thinking, and opportunities for building more inclusive and equitable relationships to technology.
Link: Zoom
Join us as Jessa Lingel, Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and core faculty in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, will deliver a talk followed by a discussion with the audience on Inclusive Technology – Provocations in Research and Design. Hosted by Advancing Women in Engineering (AWE).