GloTech Lab

The Global Technology for Social Justice Lab @umass is a research hub & trust network for scholars & practitioners in critical tech & global studies

[GloTech Lab @GloTechLab]

I am a research lab and trust network for scholars and practitioners in critical tech and global studies. Join and witness my birth on April 19, 2024. #GloTechLaunch #GloTechLab

[GloTech Lab @GloTechLab]

We are excited to host “The Phoenix of Gaza XR,” a virtual reality exhibit about Gaza created by Naim Aburaddi & Ahlam Muhtaseb, and a keynote panel featuring them & Helga Tawil-Souri, on Feb 24-25 at ILC. @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass

Details & registration: https://t.co/4870lqKHK2

[GloTech Lab @GloTechLab]

We're excited to co-sponsor @eszter's talk this Friday (11/15) at 130 PM in the Communication Hub! Professor Hargittai will talk about digital inequality in older adults' technology use. Join us if you're around! @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass @UMassCommDept

[GloTech Lab @GloTechLab]

Thanks to @pyo_jane for a fantastic talk today. We can't wait for the book!

[UMassCommunication @UMassCommDept]

Today at noon:

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Our inaugural postdoc in race and digital politics, @pyo_jane, will give a talk this Friday on the new modes of contentious politics in South Korea. It's at noon in the Communication Hub (ILC 301). Do not miss it! @UMassCommDept @SBS_UMass @UMassAmherst

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

We’re excited for next week’s public talk delivered by no other than @GloTechLab's inaugural Postdoc in Race and Digital Politics @pyo_jane. Dr Pyo is a global media and political communication scholar with a focus on digital technology and democracy & mediated civic engagement.

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Join us TODAY at noon in the Communication Hub to hear Professor @bilgeyesil1 talk about her new book, Talking Back to the West! https://t.co/L0J5dUfLTY @UMassCommDept @SBS_UMass @UMassAmherst

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Come hang out with our #GloTechLab fellows (@jonathan_c_ong, @norasuren @zlz106 @pyo_jane, @larri_mill) at AoIR 2024 in Sheffield, UK @AoIR_org

[Ethan Zuckerman @EthanZ]

Vittoria Elliott has a great overview of our arguments and what's at stake in the case in her piece for @WIRED: https://t.co/8bMZIL9YxR

[UMassCommunication @UMassCommDept]

GloTech News: New publication by GloTech Lead Burcu Baykurt entitled "Corporate Capture" published in Data & Society anthology: https://t.co/TpCxt8vOGr

[Ethan Zuckerman @EthanZ]

With my brilliant friends at @knightcolumbia, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at https://t.co/aLuWiibK44

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#GloTechLab senior fellow @EthanZ is suing Meta.

[Prof. Wayne Xu @WeiaiWayne]

Check out this NYT piece by my colleague @EthanZ and his lawsuit against Meta.
I Love Facebook. That’s Why I’m Suing Meta. https://t.co/avujZsmirT

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#GloTechLab Community Lead Prof. Seyram Avle @seyramavle and co-author Prof. Jean Hardy @jean__hardy discuss techno-optimism in the latest @ConversationUS article. Read here: https://t.co/mNJuGEWJPI

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🥳 #GloTechLab research lead
@BuBaykurt just published a new essay “Corporate Capture” @datasociety anthology👇 https://t.co/51f80AbLyC…

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

"...transactional ties, where the tech industry deliberately exploits cash-strapped public institutions and asserts its expertise in data science. Under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have turned the state into a reliant client." -@BuBaykurt @GloTechLab

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Thank you, @valpaskar! ✨🤩

[Val Paskar @valpaskar]

Congrats on a fabulous launch @GloTechLab and thank you for allowing me to entertain your brilliant participants with some tunes!💽🔊 Here is the playlist that I arranged for the event if anyone wanted to check it out
https://t.co/vtq2Msf0b4

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Thank you so much "Calling Out and Calling In: How to Globalize the Tech & Democracy Space (and still get funded)" panelists for your candid conversation! Meetali Jain, @afivenson, @ToniFriedman, @hwasser,
@thakurdhanaraj, & our brilliant moderator
@BuBaykurt🔥 #GloTechLab

[GloTech Lab @GloTechLab]

Panel 3, "Global Elections 2024: India, South Korea, South Africa, Ghana and the USA" was incredible! 🔥📷 Thank you @HeesooJang2, @hwasser, @seyramavle, @krforde and @EthanZ for moderating!

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

Nurturer archetype is needed when creating a container intending for bold and courageous visioning and action, for community leaders and engaged scholars too often burntout from extractivist relations. Thank you @MarthaFuentes for holding this space and looking fire doing it 🔥

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@MarthaFuentes is such an important part of our team 🔥🔥 #GloTechLab

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

Nurturer archetype is needed when creating a container intending for bold and courageous visioning and action, for community leaders and engaged scholars too often burntout from extractivist relations. Thank you @MarthaFuentes for holding this space and looking fire doing it 🔥