Technologies of Dissent Talk at 4S
by Laura DeNardis | October 31, 2009 | News and Ideas, Other | Comments Off
Yale ISP Executive Director Laura DeNardis and ISP fellows Victoria Stodden and Ben Peters are all presenting papers this week in DC at the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). 4S is the primary intellectual community for scholars in the field of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and more than 900 scholars descended upon Washington for this year’s meeting.
Laura DeNardis presented a chapter of her current book project, Technologies of Dissent, in a panel on maps and images. Her paper, “Technologies of Dissent: The Use of Internet Mapping Technology in Political Protest,” examines the intersection of dissent and digital geography by exploring the recent arrest of a G20 protester broadcasting police movements via twitter, the Google maps mashup “Prop 8 Maps” containing geographical markers for individuals who had donated money in support of the passage of Proposition 8, and other examples. DeNardis’s paper explores the dissolution of boundaries between virtual and material realities of political dissent and how the possibly transformative roll of mapping technologies necessitates a reconceptualization of 21st century social action and of the technical architectures necessary to support political expression.
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