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|'''TITLE'''      || Documenting the histories of revolutionary communications and technologies
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|'''AUTHOR'''      || '''stoopt''' and hopefully you, you and you!
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|'''DAY''':         ||  Sunday
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|'''LANGUAGE''':    || eng, fr, es
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|'''DURATION''':    || 2h
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|'''DESCRIPTION''' || 

Documenting the histories of revolutionary communications and
technologies in context of liberation and revolutionary struggles,
particularly, but not exclusively, in the “global South” and in anti-
post- and de- colonial struggles is crucial.  Revolutionary
communications and technologies can broadly be understood as happening
in context of significant oppression where building communication
technologies are not a goal in and of themselves, but rather a means to
achieving liberation. Examples include: the use of underground radio in
the Algerian war of independence as described by Frantz Fanon in This
is the voice of Algeria, the ways in which the Zapatistas cleverly used
the Internet to mobilize civil society in the mid-1990s, an encrypted
communication system developed during the anti-apartheid movement in
the 1980s, the use of single band radio by Timorese freedom fighters
together with Australians in occupied Timore Leste, among many others. 

This group conversation will be articulated around three main and simple
questions: First, what are the historical examples of revolutionary
communication that we can learn from and be inspired by? What kind of
revolutionary communication and technologies exist currently? How can
these examples better circulate among activists and techies in the
“global South” and “global North”? Come prepare to share a story, a
case study, a reference (a great book or blog post you have read!) or
simply come to listen to extraordinary stories of fugitive communication
technologies. 



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[[Category: 2018]]
[[Category: Talk]]