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DESCRIPTION:Many high-tech projects that hoist the banner of "innovation" pride 
 themselves on creating "disruption" to established modes of industry and 
 commerce. Yet, often the disruption that ensues comes at the expense of the 
 lives, livelihoods and neighborhoods of people in a vulnerable position on 
 the socio-economic scale. What would a technology of disruption look like 
 that champions the working poor? How can technologists, artists, designers 
 and innovators "disrupt" an economic system that has led to shockingly high 
 inequalities of wealth and has damaged an already flawed system of 
 democratic political participation? Stories of Solidarity attempts to do 
 just that, to build a platform of social media where low-wage, part-time, 
 marginal and/or seasonal workers (the precariat) can share their stories, 
 images and videos to others in the same predicament, in order to build new 
 solidarities that can combat inequality.  The goal was to create something 
 that was visually and aesthetically appealing with the technical capacity 
 to accommodate multiple levels of interaction. Users access stories through 
 a geolocation-based interface, while live data feeds provide deeper context 
 through information graphics. In the spirit of UC Berkeley's Free Speech 
 Movement, the project asks how the resources and intellectual power of 
 California's public university can be used to engage and empower 
 Californians often deprived of the fruits of university research.\n\nGlenda 
 Drew is an artist and designer whose research and practice centers on 
 making art that supports social change through an inventive and often 
 playful approach at the Department of Design at UC-Davis, where she teaches 
 screen-based and interactive design.\n\nJesse Drew is Professor of 
 Technocultural Studies at UC Davis, where his research and practice centers 
 on alternative and community media technologies and their impact on 
 democratic societies, with a particular emphasis on the global working 
 class.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/12/18769855.php
SUMMARY:ATC Lecture: Jesse Drew and Glenda Drew, 'A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools'
LOCATION:David Brower Center\n2150 Allston Way\nBerkeley, CA 
 94704\n510-809-0900\nhttp://www.browercenter.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/12/18769855.php
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