Posts Tagged ‘oppression’

Session Proposal: (re)creating modes of domination

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I would like to propose a roundtable to undertake the project of exploring social media’s potential for horizontal strategizing, desicion-making, and acting.

In order to explore this potential, we first need to interrogate the ways these communities reproduce existing zones of privilege and modes of domination and oppression as well as how they may create new ones.

By rooting these questions in the practices of the groups, institutions, and organizations we are all working with, I hope we can develop a strategy (and an ethic) of solidarity for the ways we participate in and employ social media and its tools for instigating change.