Ch 5: Retooling solidarity, reimagining justice
Do you agree with Benjamin’s argument that we can utilize technologies for solidarity and justice? Why or why not? She was writing prior to the murder of George Floyd and the pandemic. Do those issues, in addition to the resistance to internet regulation, give you pause? If there is cause for hope, where do you find it, and how does this hope relate to the questions of ethics as we have discussed them?
Or, if you’d rather learn about Latinx digital studies, you can choose to watch Melissa Villa-Nicholas present Data Borders: How we are all intimately intertwined with detention and deportation, Links to an external site.and write something that is of interest to you from this presentation.