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Technology against technocracy : toward design strategies for critical community technology / Design strategies for critical community technology

Thesis: S.M. in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 2017. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-79). / This thesis develops an intersectional, critical analysis of the field of practice known as Civic Tech and highlights other relevant community-organizing and activist practices that utilize technology as a central component. First, I develop critiques of Civic Tech as a dominant technocratic, neoliberal approach to democracy and bureaucracy and trace the history and intellectual genealogy of this specific movement. I then highlight civic technologies outside of the field of Civic Tech that have resulted in more redistributive and democratic outcomes, especially for Black people and other people of color. Finally, I define a research and design practice called Critical Community Technology Pedagogy that is demystificatory, multi-directional, transferable, and constructive, and draws upon examples from the Civic Lab for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) in Newfoundland, Data DiscoTechs in Detroit, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy in New York City. / by Maya M. Wagoner. / S.M. in Comparative Media Studies

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/111297
Date January 2017
CreatorsWagoner, Maya M
ContributorsSasha Costanza-Chock., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Comparative Media Studies., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Comparative Media Studies
PublisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format79 pages, application/pdf
Coveragen-us-mi n-us-ny
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