Category: Activism & Civic Engagement
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Mapping the Geography of Racism: Why Deep Dives in Data Matter
Drawing from the work of “Mapping Inequality,” a ProPublica investigative report published earlier this month uncovered a phenomenon similar to redlining in the car insurance industry today. The report found insurers charged premiums that were up to 30 percent higher in minority neighborhoods than in predominantly white neighborhoods with similar rates of accident risk. “As rates have […]
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Research Study on the 2017 Women’s March
Hello, HASTAC! My name is Abigail Browning, and as a PhD student at NC State University, I am researching collective action and I am particularly interested in understanding how the Women’s March developed, who participated, and what the impact of the experience was for those who marched. As a result, two of my NCSU colleagues […]
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LazosNexos Exp1
Some time ago (2014) I proposed the idea of having a cell phone application that would allow you to view the existing relationships in the contact list. The conceptual basis of this work was basically based on the proposal of Bruno Latour's actor network. However, it is complex, it seems, to solve the technical challenges […]
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Making Sense of Election 2016 & Digital Political Communication
Hi all, Last week I attended the conference “Making Sense of Election 2016,” which was organized by the Aggie Agora team and the Texas A&M University. The meeting included relevant keynote speakers in the fields of political science and communication, such as Julia Azari, Daniel Kreiss, John Murphy, and Jennifer Stromer-Galley. The main idea of […]
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Social (Media, Justice, Both?)
Social media – a concept that has consumed our lives. This mode of communication has become the hub for long-distance connections, news, and political conversations. We have talked in class about collaboration, and social media allows people who may have never been able to get involved with movements to contribute something whether it is expertise, opinions, money, or other […]
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Crowdsourcing Celebrities
This article focuses on the massive donations received by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) following Trump’s executive order on immigration. The ACLU received $24 million in online donations in under 48 hours following the announcements, compared to “the $7.2 million the organization received five days following Trump’s election.” The amount is also reportedly six […]
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Affirming Core Values of HASTAC and the Futures Initiative
Dear friends of HASTAC and the Futures Initiative, We write today to reaffirm our core values of intellectual freedom and education as a public good, and to invite you, our members, to use these two networks, HASTAC and the Futures Initiative, to fight for those values, especially at this time when they are being severely […]
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Kiva: Using Crowd Sourcing to Serve the Underbanked
I chose to support non-profit micro lender Kiva by participating in a syndicated loan. The recipient, Milka, is a Kenyan corn farmer and mother of four who was looking to expand her farming operation buy purchasing hybrid seed corn, fertilizer and a solar lamp. https://www.kiva.org/lend/1214525 There are two primary reasons I chose this effort. I […]
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Thoughts on the American Prison Writing Archive
Working on a transcription for the American Prison Writing Archive was a very enlightening experience. To be completely honest, I at first questioned why this project existed and was uncomfortable with the idea of not only reading the thoughts of prisoners, but of helping them get their writing out to the public. I struggled […]