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session notes • slides

Visitor: Houman Saberi, Community Tech NY

A brief introduction to a number of grassroots, activist organizations working toward digital equity in the U.S. who define themselves as “community technologists.”

The key differences between one-to-one messaging, one-to-few group chats, and one-to-many broadcasting. The divide between local ties and global connection.

Before Class 📚 Read:  Greta Byrum, “Building the People’s Internet.” Urban Omnibus Familiarize yourselves with:  Community Technology Collective Teaching Community Technology Handbook, ed. Diana Nucera    📺 Watch:  “Intro to Community Technology” panel from the 2020 Allied Media Conference  ✏️ Write:  a letter to your classmate answers to these #response-questions:  What is the difference between mesh networks and traditional network infrastructures? How would you describe the curriculum in the Teaching Community Technology Handbook?    ❀

Practicum None for this week.

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Related Links artifact of the week: telegram  “I Tried to Send a Telegram in 2016,” The Atlantic. See also this Atlas Obscura piece. Henry James, In the Cage (1898)  legal barriers to rural and community-owned wireless  Claire Park, “Community Broadband: The Fast, Affordable Internet Option That’s Flying Under the Radar.” New America Foundation (May 2020)