*"****What World Are We Building?" * danah boyd 2015 Everett C Parker Lecture <http://uccmediajustice.org/content_item/parkerlecture2015>: October 20, 2015 /This talk was written for the 2015 Everett C Parker Lecture <http://uccmediajustice.org/content_item/parkerlecture2015>, in honor of his amazing work. Being able to give this lecture is an honor, but it is also deeply humbling in light of his amazing work. / Citation: boyd, danah. 2015. "What World Are We Building?" /Everett C Parker Lecture./ Washington, DC, October 20. *INTRODUCTION* I am both honored and humbled to be with you today. Today is a day of celebration and mourning, a reminder that life and death are deeply connected and that what we do with our time on this earth matters. We are here today because Dr. Parker spent much of his life fighting for the rights of others - notably the poor and people of color, recognizing that the ability to get access to new technologies to communicate and learn weren’t simply privileges, but rights. He challenged people to ask hard questions and ignore the seemingly insurmountable nature of complex problems. In the process, he paved a road that enables a whole new generation of activists to rally for media rights. I’m here today to talk with you about battles underway around new internet-based technologies. I’m an ethnographer, which means that I’ve spent the bulk of my professional life trying to map cultural practices at the intersection between technology and society. It’s easy to love or hate technology, to blame it for social ills or to imagine that it will fix what people cannot. But technology is made by people. In a society. And it has a tendency to mirror and magnify the issues that affect everyday life. The good, bad, and ugly. ….. continua qui: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2015/ParkerLecture.html