Deeper than a Digital Divide: Women, Welfare and the 'High-Tech' Economy - Virginia Eubanks
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Sun Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Virginia Eubanks joined the Department of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY in 2004 after completing her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Eubanks came to her research - "high-tech" development and women's urban poverty in the United States - through a history of activism in the community media and technology center movements, and is currently working on a book project entitled "Popular Technology: Citizenship and Inequality in the Information Economy." She teaches courses in public policy, research methodology, and science and technology studies. Eubanks also co-founded the "Popular Technology Workshops," a popular education and technology series held monthly at the YWCA of Troy-Cohoes and Women's Building of Albany. The workshops are a place for ordinary people to come together in order to define the most pressing problems of the "information age" and articulate their own solutions. The workshops are grounded in the idea that ordinary people have the ability and the right to create their own tools to promote economic, political, social and cultural democracy.
More information about her is available at http://www.populartechnology.org/Virginia/.