Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures
This discussion at Edinburgh Futures Institute considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.
About Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures
We know that technology is not neutral. The development, production and use of hardware and software has created and reinscribed exclusionary and harmful power dynamics: from the omission of women from the history of computer science, to the dominance of ‘tech bros’ in the platform economy, to the gendering and global outsourcing of low paid digital and data work, to the shipping of e-waste to informal economies in the global south.
As we begin to understand the harms caused by algorithmic biases and AI, the ways in which inequalities are fundamentally encoded into technology is also becoming increasingly clear. This roundtable discussion will consider the role that education has played in developing our technological landscape and the roles it can and should play in working towards a fairer and more equitable future as well as reflect on how we are “educated” into dominant modes of thinking and knowing through technologically mediated worlds.
This event is hosted in partnership with the Centre for Data Culture and Society and GENDER.ED. The event is part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute's free public events series Learning Curves, taking place from October-December 2024. Tickets are free but booking is essential.
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