Week 2

We'll kicked off this week with a webinar on Wednesday.

Here's the slides from the webinar.

Readings This Week

Algorithms of Oppression

2. Searching for Black Girls p. 64 - 110

3. Searching for People and Communities p. 110 - 119

Activities/Discussion

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For this week, take a look at another intersectional group that is being under counted and whose circumstances is being under reported.

On a search engine look for  the hashtag #MMIW #MMIWG

Read and watch the video Damning Canadian Inquiry Calls the Murder and Disappearance of Indigenous Women & Girls Genocide. (Transcript also on website).

Here's the Canadian government's reports on it, 231 Calls to Justice to include one for educators:

Calls for Educators

11.1 Educate and provide awareness to the public about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people, and about the issues and root causes of violence they experience.

11.2 Develop and implement awareness and education programs for Indigenous children and youth on the issue of grooming for exploitation and sexual exploitation.

Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Supplementary Report of National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

United States

For a contrast in representation and why data justice matters, here is a quick article on the U.S. coverage. Canada has acknowledged its genocide of indigenous women. When will the U.S.?

Data from the National Institute of Justice

The National Institute of Justice reports more than 80 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native men and women have experienced violence in their lifetimes and more than 34 percent have experienced violence in the last year.

The National Institute of Justice also estimates that 56 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women experience sexual violence in their lifetimes

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: A snapshot of data from 71 urban cities in the United States. "A Nationwide Data Crisis link

The Search: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: Fault Lines (26 minute video) from Al Jazeera English.

Congressional H.R.2438 Not Invisible Act of 2019 introduced by Rep. Debra Haaland (New Mexico).

Senate S.227 - Savanna's Act introduced by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota) in 2018 passed Senate and then was blocked, was reintroduced by Sen Murkowski (Alaska).

This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to update the online data entry format for federal databases relevant to cases of missing and murdered Indians to include a new data field for users to input the victim's tribal enrollment information or affiliation.

For this week, consider doing a slow tweetchat asking these questions

Q1. What pressures do you feel to engage with technologies?

Q2.  May 5, 2019, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls was observed. Did you see anything about this is your social media or news streams?

Q3. May 5, 2019, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls was observed. Do a search on Google or try DuckDuckGo what can you find on it?

Q4. What are your thoughts on companies monetizing your data? Do you own the data or do they?

Optional Reading 

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 

Chapter 1: Home or Exile in the Digital Future p. 3 - 24 

Chapter 3: The Discovery of Behavioral Surplus p. 63 - 97

Chapter 5: The elaboration of surveillance capitalism: Kidnap, corner, compete p. 128 - 175

Academic Articles (for the truly motivated)

DiAngelo, R. (2011). White fragility. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3), 54-70

Retrieved  from http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249/116

DiAngelo, R. (2108). White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press. Amazon link.

Martin, J. H. and Novak, K. (2019) Review of Giridharadas, A. (2018). "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World." New York: Alfred A Knopf.," Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 , Article 7.

https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol7/iss1/7

Matias, C.E. Feeling white: Whiteness, emotionality, and education. Springer 2016. Amazon link.

Matias, C.E. (2014). "And our feelings just don't feel it anymore": Re-Feeling whiteness, resistance and emotionality. Understanding and dismantling privilege., 4(2), 134- 153.

Zuboff, Shoshana. (2015). Big other: Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization. Journal of Information Technology 30(1), 75-89. https://doi-org.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1057/jit.2015.5 link.

Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Supplementary Report of National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

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