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SUMMARY:Technocolonialism: digital humanitarianism as extraction - Dr Mirc
 a Madianou\, Goldsmiths
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CONTACT:Tellef S. Raabe
DESCRIPTION:We are happy to annouce Dr Mirca Madianou as our first speaker
  of the term! The topic of the talk wil be 'Technocolonialism: digital hum
 anitarianism as extraction'.\n\nWhat's it gonna be about?\nDigital innovat
 ion\, artificial intelligence\, and data practices are increasingly centra
 l to the humanitarian response to recent humanitarian emergencies includin
 g refugee crises. In her talk\, Madianou will introduce the concept of tec
 hnocolonialism to capture how the convergence of digital developments with
  humanitarian structures and capitalist forces reinvigorates and reshapes 
 colonial relationships of dependency. Technocolonialism shifts the attenti
 on to the constitutive role that data and digital innovation play in entre
 nching power asymmetries between refugees and aid agencies and ultimately 
 inequalities in the global context. This occurs through a number of interc
 onnected processes: by extracting value from refugee data for the benefit 
 of various stakeholders\; by materializing gender\, race and social discri
 mination associated with colonial legacies\; by contributing to the produc
 tion of social orders that entrench the “coloniality of power”\; and b
 y justifying some of these practices under the context of “emergencies.
 ” By reproducing the power asymmetries of humanitarianism\, data and inn
 ovation practices become constitutive of humanitarian crises themselves.\n
 \nMirca Madianou is Reader in the Department of Media and Communications a
 t Goldsmiths\, University of London where she works on the social uses of 
 communication technologies in a transnational and comparative context. Her
  recent and current research focuses on migration and humanitarian emergen
 cies and their intersection with digital technology. She is currently comp
 leting a book on the role of digital innovation\, artificial intelligence 
 and data practices in the humanitarian sector. She is the author of Mediat
 ing the Nation: News\, Audiences and the Politics of Identity and Migratio
 n and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia (with D. Miller) as 
 well as editor of Ethics of Media (with N. Couldry and A. Pinchevski).
LOCATION:17 Mill Lane\, Room E (2nd floor)
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