We Be Imagining

We Be Imagining

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We Be Imagining episodes

  • Who We Be Now? (with Abeba Berhane)
    Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz
    Music: Drew Lewis
    Abeba Berhane, PhD candidate in cognitive science at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science joins the WBI show to discuss what it means to be human when we as deeply social and interdependent beings are atomized in our houses to shelter in due to COVID-19.
    For complete show notes, visit americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast
    1 hr 7 min
  • A Chance to Transgress (with Seda Gürses, Miryam Aouragh, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting)
    April 10th, 4 radical feminist women of The Institute for Technology of the Public Interest joined the WBI show to discuss how they came to speak publicly for the first time through a Git Hub bug report about contact tracing apps. Reframing the debate away from the false dichotomy of surveillance or indefinite quarantine, they reflect on how pandemics historically coincided with war and changing political economies. Aouragh asks how we can change the 7pm pots and pans banging for frontline health care workers to raised fists, angrily demanding a world where governments invest heavily in public health infrastructures. For complete show notes, visit americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast
    1 hr 25 min
  • Distributing Blackness (with Andre Brock)
    Andre Brock, assistant professor at Georgia Tech and author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures joins WBI to discuss the Black techno-matrix, joy, catharsis and the ratchet. For complete shownotes, visit americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast.
    1 hr 5 min
  • If you open a hole in the internet, people will immediately fill it with s*** (with Sarah T. Roberts)
    Sarah T Roberts, assistant professor at UCLA and author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media joins WBI to discuss the implications of full automation of social media content moderation in light of the human infrastructure for the first time in history, sheltering in place and unable to work due to COVID-19. For complete show notes, visit americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast.
    1 hr 21 min
  • Minisode 2 - Quarantined as a Physician (with Mihir Parikh)
    Beth Israel Deaconess Pulmonologist, Dr. Mihir Parikh joins the WBI podcast to discuss the experience of his family being quarantined due after his wife, Dr. Aparna Parikh tested positive for COVID-19. He also shares his analysis of why initial reports from international colleagues about the spread of the virus were not internalized and what to do moving forward. For complete show notes, visit americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast.
    27 min
  • Policing the Pandemic (with Ali Winston)

    Ali Winston joins the WBI team to continue to discuss the privacy implications of surveillance enacted during COVID-19 containment measures and what it means for the world to rely on social media and Zoom video conferencing to mediate most relationships outside of their home. For complete show notes, visit americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast.

    1 hr 14 min
  • Surveillance Goes Viral (with Chris Gilliard and Jasmine McNealy)
    Chris Gilliard and Jasmine McNealy join the WBI team to discuss the privacy implications of surveillance enacted during COVID-19 containment measures and what it means for the world to rely on social media and Zoom video conferencing to mediate most relationships outside of their home. For complete show notes, visit americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast.
    1 hr 3 min

About We Be Imagining

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The We Be Imagining Podcast examines the intersection of race, tech, surveillance, gender and disability in the COVID-19 era