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session notes Before Class 📚 Read:  Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque, Nusrat Jahan Mim, and Steven J. Jackson, “Residual Mobilities: Infrastructural Displacement and Post-Colonial Computing in Bangladesh” two excerpts from André Brock, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020)  “The Soft Bigotry of Low Information Expectations” pp. 40-41 “…and Mobile Digital Practice” pp. 136-38    📺 Watch:  Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit, Vice (12:12)  🎧 Listen:  Interview with Nicol Turner Lee, director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution, on the FCC’s Broadband podcast (29:22)  ✏️ Write:  answers to these #response-questions:  How do Ahmed et al. define “mobility”? What are some of the problems Brock sees with framings of the “digital divide”?    ❀

Practicum Queue up your text messages in a pen/paper notebook.

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Related Links artifact of the week: phonographic voicemail  Phonopost  maintenance  The Maintainers research network  community mesh  Rory Solomon, Meshiness: Mesh Networks and the Politics of Connectivity