Culturally responsive computing as brokerage: toward asset building with education-based social movements

Lachney, Michael

doi:10.1080/17439884.2016.1211679

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“…Consider, for example, MIT's Scratch program in which children learn coding to create their own games and animations. Our recent study (Lachney et al 2016b) showed 2960 occurrences for "Barbie," 6530 results for "McDonalds"; 4600 for "Disney Princess"; 8210 for Transformers; "17,400" results for Call of Duty; and over 3 million search hits for "Pokemon." The Scratch website's motto: "We turn children from consumers into producers."…”

Section: Tuning For Generative Justicementioning

confidence: 97%

A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics

Eglash

2018

Engineering a Better Future

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Engineering is closely tied to social and environmental destruction across the globe. The energy industry has created global warming, oil spills, acid rain, and toxins ranging from mercury to radioactive waste. Manufacturing has turned skilled crafts into low paid, repetitive assembly jobs. Information technology has accelerated wealth inequality such that the top 1% of the world's wealthy now own 50% of the wealth. One theory is that these detrimental effects have nothing to do with the engineering design; that they are merely the result of how capitalism forces us to use otherwise "neutral" technologies. But socialist experiments from the USSR to Venezuela have shown the same degree of pollution and poverty as capitalism. "The People's" radioactive waste left over from the USSR will kill you just as fast as General Electric's radioactive waste in the US. The destructive force of artifacts is immune to politics. However that is because both left and right ends of the political spectrum have focused on systems built for the extraction of value. A generative approach to engineering, in contrast, would design technologies specifically for maintaining value in unalienated forms, and circulating that value rather than extracting it. This paper will review this underlying concept of generative justice, and how that can be adapted to engineering practice.

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Section: Tuning For Generative Justicementioning

confidence: 97%

A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics

Eglash

2018

Engineering a Better Future

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“…[which] aligns with the mathematician's sense of fractal patterns as iterative scaling, and a computer scientist's sense of algorithm." 51 Cornrow Curves is part of a broader community informatics initiative, which is recasting what counts as technoscience and who we think of as innovators. 52 In the pro cess, the creative, even beautiful dimensions of liberatory design abound!…”

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Benjamin¹

2019

Captivating Technology

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Technology captivates. Capturing bodies. Dashcams on the front of police vehicles recording traffic stops turned deadly, as with the arrest of Sandra Bland on a Texas highway. Robot cranes reaching thirty feet in the air, monitoring images and heat signatures throughout Camden, New Jersey, deepening police occupation of impoverished neighborhoods. 1 Crime prediction algorithms labeling black defendants "higher risk" than their white counter parts, reinforcing popu lar ste reo types of criminality and innocence behind a veneer of objectivity. 2 Electronic ankle monitors wrapping around the limbs of thousands of people as they await trial or serve parole. .. an "attractive alternative" to cages, more humane and cost-effective than jails, we are told. Tools, in this way, capture more than just people's bodies. They also capture the imagination, offering technological fixes for a wide range of social prob lems. Electronic tracking and location systems are part of a growing suite of interventions dubbed "technocorrections." 3 Indeed, these interventions All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.-toni morrison What is so astonishing about the fact that our prisons resemble our factories, schools, military bases, and hospitals-all of which in turn resemble prisons?-michel foucault social disorders such as poverty and crime. In the first-ever report analyzing the impact of electronic monitoring of youth in California, we learn that e-monitoring entails a combination of onerous and arbitrary rules that end up forcing young people back into custody for "technical violations." 4 Attractive fixes, it turns out, produce new opportunities for youth to violate the law and, thereby, new grounds for penalizing them. But perhaps this is the point? Could it be that we don't need technocorrections to make us secure, that we need social insecurity to justify technocorrections? 5 Captivating Technology examines how the management, control, and "correction" of poor and racialized people provide the raison d'être for investing in discriminatory designs. 6 The volume aims to contribute to a long-standing so cio log i cal concern with structures of in equality. These "default settings" encompass legal, economic, and now computer codes, and move past an individual's intention to discriminate, by focusing analy sis on how technoscience reflects and reproduces social hierarchies, whether wittingly or not. From credit-scoring algorithms to workplace monitoring systems, novel techniques and devices are shown to routinely build upon and deepen in equality. 7 Racist and classist forms of social control, in this sense, are not limited to obvious forms of incarceration and punishment; rather, they entail what sociologist Carla Shedd calls a "carceral continuum" that scales over prison walls. 8 Even what is now popularly known as the "prison industrial complex" is vaster than most of us realize. As the editors of Captive Genders Eric Stanley and Nat Smith cata log, it includes "[i]immigration ...

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“…The sheer numbers actually mask a lack of diversity in participants and projects. Research of content and creators in Scratch and Minecraft online communities revealed that diversity is lacking [35][42] [54]. Such observations should be seen as an indicator that not everyone feels comfortable in joining and participating in online communities.…”

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Connected Gaming: An Inclusive Perspective for Serious Gaming

Kafai

2017

IJSG

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Serious games should focus on connected gaming, which is combining the instructionist approach on having students play educational games for learning with the constructionist approach on having students make their own games for learning. Constructionist activities have always been part of the larger gaming ecology but have traditionally received far less attention than their instructionist counterparts. Future developments in serious gaming ought to promote this more inclusive perspective to better realize the full potential of gaming as a means for learning and for connecting children to technology and to each other. This potential for more meaningful connectivity can also address the persistent access and diversity issues long facing gaming cultures.

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Culturally responsive computing as brokerage: toward asset building with education-based social movements

Cited by 54 publications

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A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics

A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics

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