Not Bugs, But Features: Hopeful Institutions and Technologies of Inequality

Published: April 11, 2017, 2:30 a.m.

How did we learn that we need to learn to code\u2014or else? This talk draws on three years of fieldwork among Washington, D.C.\u2019s public libraries, and interviews with librarians and homeless patrons, to explore how poverty comes to be understood as a \u2018digital divide\u2019 and how that framework changes the nature and purpose of public institutions in an era of skyrocketing inequality.\n\nFor more about this event, visit:\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017/01/Greene