ISRC-invited talk: Dr. David Nemer - Oct. 11 @ 3pm

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:57:59 -0400

Title: Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the digital mundane in Favelas of Brazil

Abstract: Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don’t just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression—and even, at times, to flourish.

Bio: David Nemer is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Latin American Studies at the University of Virginia. David Nemer has a PhD in Computing, Culture, and Society from Indiana University, and a Master’s in Anthropology from the University of Virginia, and in Computer Science from Saarland University. He is also an Affiliated Scholar at Princeton University’s Brazil Lab. He is the author of “Technology of the Oppressed” (forthcoming February 2022, MIT Press) and “Favela Digital: The other side of technology” (2013, GSA).

Location: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=me8b94e5f82417f39be02e783ec814e36