Critical information and library science scholars have written extensively about how hierarchies of power are reproduced and enacted through digital technologies. Technological projects are never neutral. In this talk, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble from the USC Annenberg School of Communication will discuss the importance of the digitally-enabled academic-activist community to offer models of intervention and resistance through research, practice and teaching. By illuminating linkages to power struggles over values, particularly in the context of the digital, we can re-examine information contexts that can engender greater responsibility and imperative to act.
