Technology

The Digital Divide is Real

Melissa Obi There is tremendous power and opportunities that technology provides to communities – particularly historically disenfranchised minority communities. [row] [col span__sm=”12″] [row_inner] [col_inner span__sm=”12″] In this age of technology, “digital exclusion” means that disenfranchised communities, families, and individuals are left farther behind without access to online resources for education, communication and a gateway to …

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Surveillance Capitalism & the Commodification of Data

Melissa Obi The absorption of data has lent itself to commodification. Everything about you is for profit. Within a very short period of time, technological technocrats have developed new business models, shifted power relations and, in the end, created a new form of capitalism, “Surveillance Capitalism.”  This is a new form of capitalism that also …

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