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February 13, 2020 By BINJ ONLINE

‘THE SMARTPHONE SOCIETY’ BOOK RELEASE AT HARVARD BOOK STORE (3.11)

 

Join author and Jacobin editorial board member Nicole Aschoff for a discussion about how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech’s own rise to ubiquity. Nicole is also a managing editor with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, and will join BINJ editorial director Chris Faraone for a discussion about her new release at Harvard Book Store on Wednesday, March 11 at 7pm.


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ABOUT THE BOOK: Our smartphones have brought digital technology into the most intimate spheres of life. It’s time to take control of them, repurposing them as pathways to a democratically designed and maintained digital commons that prioritizes people over profit.

Smartphones have appeared everywhere seemingly overnight: since the first iPhone was released, in 2007, the number of smartphone users has skyrocketed to over two billion. Smartphones have allowed users to connect worldwide in a way that was previously impossible, created communities across continents, and provided platforms for global justice movements. However, the rise of smartphones has led to corporations using consumers’ personal data for profit, unmonitored surveillance, and digital monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon that have garnered control over our social, political, and economic landscapes.

But people are using their smartphones to fight back. New modes of resistance are emerging, signaling the possibility that our pocket computers could be harnessed for the benefit of people, not profit. From helping to organize protests against the US-Mexico border wall through Twitter to being used to report police brutality through Facebook Live, smartphones open a door for collective change.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nicole Aschoff is a writer, editor, and public sociologist. Nicole is the author of The New Prophets of Capital and a staff writer at Jacobin magazine. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University and previously taught at Boston University.

ABOUT THE EVENT: The author will be interviewed by Chris Faraone of DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, where she also contributes as a managing editor.

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