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SUMMARY:Digital Exclusion: A Politics of Refusal for a Data-Driven Era - D
 r. Seeta Peña Gangadharan\, Media and Communications\, LSE 
DTSTART:20190513T110000Z
DTEND:20190513T123000Z
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CONTACT:Tellef S. Raabe
DESCRIPTION:Over the past few decades\, the term “digital exclusion” h
 as been linked to debates about access to internet infrastructures\, adopt
 ion of internet-enabled technologies\, and conditions of social and econom
 ic marginalization and historic forms of oppression. More recently\, consi
 derations of privacy and surveillance as well as political economic factor
 s impacting processes of social and economic marginalization are adding to
  these debates. Taken together\, these exclusionary problems amount to wha
 t Iris Marion Young (2002) referred to as “plausible structural story”
  (p. 15) of the disadvantage faced by marginalized communities when choosi
 ng to use or engage with technology.\n\n\nBut do these harmful accounts of
  exclusion obscure the agentic possibilities of self-exclusion in technolo
 gically mediated society? In this presentation\, I reevaluate the idea of 
 digital exclusion as a form of refusal of technologies’ seemingly inevit
 able uses and ends. Refusal does not mean anti-technology or imply wholesa
 le rejection of digital devices\, internet infrastructures\, or internet-b
 ased technologies. Instead\, grounding the discussion in postcolonial and 
 feminist political theories and in field research focused on Our Data Bodi
 es\, I argue that a politics of refusal represents an affirmative take on 
 exclusion. Refusal demands a critical analysis of historically negligent o
 r harmful technology policies\, practices\, and institutions as a means fo
 r individuals and groups\, especially members of historically marginalized
  groups—to collectively self-determine a technologically mediated world 
 in which they wish to belong. 
LOCATION:17 Mill Lane\, Room E (2nd floor)
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