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

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