The seminar aims to empower netizens from the bottom-up by enabling them (and ourselves) to perceive Information and Communication Technology (ICT) beyond the interface: to identify how our social identity engages with ICT and to reflect on how the socioeconomic digitization process affects our social position. Students will collaborate to design a hands-on tool. Ideally, this tool guides netizens to achieve a sense of digital self-determination by mapping out their position in the planetary computational network. For this purpose, we will establish qualitative design principles in exchange with marginalized groups external to the university.
Students will reflexively and critically co-conduct their research based on a Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) approach in four cyclical steps:
I Observation: introduction to critical theory, concepts of inequality and digitization, and participatory methodology.
II Reflection: team-building exercises and reflection on our social position concerning the theory and concepts introduced.
III Planning: selecting the research methods and planning the data collection phase to assemble marginalized perspectives in subgroups.
IV Action: fieldwork and collective data analysis, coming up with design principles to support the design of a map toward epistemic justice.
Info Session: 20.10.2022 16-18:00 (Invalidenstraße 118, Room 410)
This is an X-Tutorial, funded by the Berlin University Alliance:
Enrolment via E-Mail, Deadline: 24.10.2022 18:00 to menne.annalena@web.de
More information: https://tinyurl.com/digital-positionality |
