{"id":6626,"date":"2015-10-20T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2015-10-20T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:37:06","slug":"what-world-are-we-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2015\/10\/20\/what-world-are-we-building.html","title":{"rendered":"What World Are We Building?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I had the honor and pleasure of giving the <a href=\"http:\/\/uccmediajustice.org\/content_item\/parkerlecture2015\">Everett C. Parker Lecture<\/a> in celebration of the amazing work he did to fight for media justice.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/papers\/talks\/2015\/ParkerLecture.html\">talk that I gave<\/a> weaved together some of my work with youth (on racial framing of technology) and my more recent thoughts on the challenges presented by data analytics. I also pulled on work of Latanya Sweeney and Eric Horvitz and argued that those of us who were shaping social media systems &#8220;didn\u2019t architect for prejudice, but we didn\u2019t design systems to combat it either.&#8221;  More than anything, I used this lecture to argue that &#8220;we need those who are thinking about social justice to understand technology and those who understand technology to commit to social justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My full remarks are available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/papers\/talks\/2015\/ParkerLecture.html\">&#8220;What World Are We Building?&#8221;<\/a> Please let me know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I had the honor and pleasure of giving the Everett C. Parker Lecture in celebration of the amazing work he did to fight for media justice. The talk that I gave weaved together some of my work with youth (on racial framing of technology) and my more recent thoughts on the challenges presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1986,456,222],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-justice","tag-race","tag-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6641,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}