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Work-wise: writing writing writing; participating in an interview; getting ready to pack; following resistance, surveillance and accountability via hashtag.
Links-wise: reimagining Black politics, sampling, Internet.org is not the Internet, Internet connections, the war of concepts, the spy in my pocket,Town Square, unity, Queen Latifah.
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Work-wise: publishing an article on working with marginalised communities with data and technology for advocacy, written collaboratively with practitioners whose work I deeply admire; joining discussions and collective reflections on online activism and digital civil disobedience; tuning into great conversations via hashtag; taking notes for new write-ups to come.
Links-wise: people are hurting, Baltimore, Ferguson, data, photos and apps for justice, lack of justice, the computers are listening, nail polish, ethical consumption of pornography, peanut butter, pride is coming up, Prince.
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by Maya Ganesh, Dirk Slater and Beatrice Martini.
“You are welcome anytime, you’re not like others who come with their own bag of potatoes”
It’s with these words that the chair of Women’s Network for Unity (WNU), a sex worker collective based in Phnom Penh, thanked Maya Ganesh and Dirk Slater from Tactical Technology Collective for approaching the work with them with no assumptions or preconceived agenda, but eager to listen and develop their collaboration together.
Mutual trust and respect, real commitment to collaboration and flexibility are all essential elements to be responsibly equipped to work with a marginalised community. And they are not even enough. That’s why, together with Maya and Dirk, we decided to write about the experience as potato-less tech capacity builders, as we think it could greatly help other practitioners planning to collaborate with groups struggling to get their rights honoured and their voices heard.
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Work-wise: publishing a post on why digital humanitarian response matters and how you can help the earthquake emergency in Nepal; co-running a session on building a digital security culture in your work; celebrating the International Workers’ Day!
Links-wise: police brutality, criminal justice, cybercrime, drone strikes, workers’ strikes, how to make banners for your next march, why we should have a better condoms by now, real women, real faces, real bodies, Lauryn Hill, Laura Jane Grace and Mary J. Blige in the MOMA.
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Nepal Earthquake 2015. Overview of tasks and imagery coverage (screenshot taken on April 28, 5pm CEST). Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
The government of Nepal has declared a state of emergency after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country on April 25, killing more than 3,800 people (figure at the time of writing).
Material and logistic assistance is now required to help thousands of people in need, and that’s when humanitarian response comes into play.
Humanitarian response can take different shapes and come from a range of organisations and actors, including governments, the United Nations system, international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement, specialists such as search-and-rescue operations – and digital humanitarians.
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Work-wise: publishing a curated list of podcasts contributing to widen representation and democracy in the media space; following a hashtag frenzy about all things journalism, web, movement building and resistance; giving a final touch to articles about to be published.
Links-wise: gun violence, slow violence, the FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades, tools to avoid snoopers online, wireless routers spying on our breathing, Rihanna breathing it and out, and Cher.
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Maria Hinojosa interviewing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for Latino USA. Picture by Christopher Soto-Chimelis.
Podcasting can be a powerful tool to reclaim representation of realities and issues and fight for justice and rights.
More about this can be read in my previous post entitled Easier, cheaper, louder: the growing power of podcasting, which explored what podcasting is today and why it matters in our effort to create a more democratic and inclusive media space.
The article featured some podcasts as tangible examples of the core topics the text was focusing on (media democratisation, representation and accessibility). But for brevity’s sake they were just a few – and there’s so much more on air.
For this reason, to answer all readers who asked for more podcast recommendations and to celebrate and share the work of many brilliant podcasters, I compiled a curated list of podcasts I listen to, love, recommend and often refer to.
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Work-wise: getting ready for my first time in Detroit and at Allied Media Conference (my workshop proposal to AMC 2015 has been accepted!); being excited about the great feedback received for my post on the power of podcasting technology in support of rights and social justice and looking forward to more projects and conversations around it; reading and thinking about abuse of power, inadequate policies and violence.
Links-wise: broken taillight policing, the power of citizen witnesses, fast-food work, minimum wage, warpaint, fresh paint, Toni Morrison, Chelsea Manning’s Spotify playlist and New Orleans bounce.
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Work-wise: talking about a post I just published about the growing power of podcasting; compiling a list of podcasts turning mainstream media dynamics upside down; wrapping up current projects and planning new ones before getting on a plane.
Links-wise: a lay person’s guide to baseline privacy, seeing the world through Syrian eyes, trans women of color and visions for justice, Chelsea Manning tweeting #90sProblems, THEESatisfaction talking beats and the Empire.
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Women of the Radio Listening Clubs in Seke Zimbabwe, by Calvin Dondo (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Having the freedom to talk about our experiences, opinions and struggles is extremely powerful. Our voices and stories are heard and shared. We can create alliances, communities and movements, support and strengthen each other, reclaim and protect our spaces and rights.
Knowing the media we can use to express ourselves independently, with no filters or need for permissions, is key to our freedom of expression, and technology provides tools which are becoming cheaper and easier to access everyday, such as blogs, videos and podcasts.
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