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Presenting the fifth issue of the Algorithms of Late-Capitalism zine: "Shifting the Power” 🤖 Digital Edition 🤖 Self-printing Edition ——————————————

In this era of increased reliance on algorithmic systems that we can’t see and don’t control, how do we shift the power back to the citizen? By knowing where, how, and to which effects algorithmic systems influence our lives – we can start finding ways to reconfigure our relationships with the systems pervading our digitizing public sphere. By interrogating and critically examining the underpinnings of these systems, from our unique perspectives, we can shift the power from the pervading technocracies back to the citizens.

—————————————— This zine was created by internet teapot (Karla Zavala and Adriaan Odendaal) and participants of the workshop: “Algorithms of Late-Capitalism: Zine Co-creation Workshop” that took place at the Mozilla Festival on 17 March 2021 * You can sign up for our upcoming board game co-design workshop here *

http://geekandsundry.com/uks-hacklab-ensures-the-future-of-tabletop-games-and-coding/

Behan Taye and Jenny Helsby talk to Interhacktive’s Nishat Ahmed about the fundamentals of data visualization. They held a … source

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Tim Berners-Lee on Solid @ MozFest 2018

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web in 1989, speaks at MozFest 2018. Tim is the founder and director of the World Wide Web Foundation and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Oxford University. He is co-founder and CTO of the newly launched company inrupt, that’s helping to fuel the success of Solid, the technically potent open-source platform built to decentralize the web.

The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy. https://solid.mit.edu/

I joined MozFest earlier this month as a participant, volunteer, and session facilitator. There are always so many creative things happening at MozFest and after logging my volunteer hours and doing some podcast interviews with participants, I felt energized and connected!

The session I co-facilitated was a podcast series to capture the Voices at MozFest. We had an open call to participants, facilitators, space wranglers, volunteers, and youth leaders to share their story. During the week we interviewed 2 facilitators and we have a couple more interviews lined up post MozFest.

As you'll see at the end of this post, it's not too late to join MozFest and and that includes joining the podcast!

In her interview, Tani Olhanoski, co-founder of Mysilio, highlighted creative ways that their software development team uses curiosity, play, and experimentation as a way to prototype and test out their ideas. During MozFest, they created an interactive exquisite corpse game to help attendees explore Web Monetization.

Our interview with Stella Anne Teoh Ming Hui from the Malaysian Philosophy Society was also fascinating as she explored rethinking the implications of the metaverse through philosophy in the Youth & Futures space.

One of the most creative things I experienced at MozFest this year was the Zine Fair. It was set up in a virtual space called Spatial Chat with a DJ spinning chill tunes. You entered this virtual space with your avatar that you could move around to view the zines and connect with other participants and zine authors. I got to meet Khushbu Kshirsagar, creator of the Zine Machine, a really cool paper-based math tinkering kit. I also found Kelly Wagman’s Gender, Power, and Tech zine very powerful!

I help teach a course at UVA called Designing Games for Learning. It is a dream class from the diversity of students who join us on the journey to the journey itself, which Jennie Chiu has designed as a series of Quests! This week we started Quest 3: What biases exist in games and learning? Today we had A.E. Osworth, author of We Are Watching Eliza Bright, join us. I invited Austen because I got the chance to interview them for the Virginia Festival of the Book about their book and I knew they would have a lot of insight to share with students about representation, bias, and culture in games, tech, and beyond.

So, you may be wondering what does this have to do with MozFest? The inspiration for the novel was sadly Gamergate, which many of our students had never heard of. This could be seen as a good thing, but as Austen pointed out the root problems from Gamergate didn't start out in the video game industry and are still very much present in our culture today. When a student asked what lessons were learned from Gamergate and what is being done differently today, Austen shared that it brought previously hidden or ignored online spaces into the light which is good, but that next steps are needed, like for instance holding tech companies accountable to deal with hate speech, fake news, biases in tech, privacy, and the list goes on. I shared with students that being part of the MozFest community is a way I can learn more about the problems and then support/work with others towards solutions.

If you are looking for a community that is shining a light in the dark spaces of tech and making real change happen, then you should join the MozFest community too! There are so many ways to get involved:

Join us on Slack! mozillafestival.org/slack (must be over the age of 16 to join)

Sign up for the MozFest newsletter: mozillafestival.org/newsletter

Follow MozFest along on Twitter or LinkedIn

Contribute to one of 15 MozFest Trustworthy AI Working Group community-led projects: https://mzl.la/3z1tGlL

Anybody who follows me on Twitter probably knows that I am a big fan of MozFest. So what is MozFest? Before my first experience, I probably thought it was just a tech conference run by Mozilla, but as I discovered it is so much more! I have experienced MozFest from many different angles: lurking online, participant, session facilitator, session mentor & wrangler. To me, MozFest is the space where internet health issues and the larger implications for society are not only acknowledged, but are actively being addressed by a diverse, committed, and growing group of people!

Here are some of my MozFest highlights:

Wrangler for the Web Literacy space

Foiling Fake News session facilitator

The Tech-Girls Challenge

This summer I became a MozFest ambassador and and this extension of MozFest across time and space is really exciting. I already do a lot of resource sharing on the fly, but I thought I would also create a monthly update on my blog to be more intentional about inviting folks in my community to find opportunities to connect and share with the MozFest community.

Here are MozFest highlights for August:

Want to be part of the solution to AI issues? Check out the #TrustworthyAI Working Groups projects! You can join as a contributor, observer or user. This could be a cool opportunity for teachers and/or students to bring real world problem solving into the classroom. Call for participation ends Sep 30. Learn more at https://mzl.la/2XFecWN.

I was so excited to see the new on-demand page with a wealth of amazing content from 5 years of #MozFest! Find videos on a wide range of tech-related topics like responding to coded bias, AI & the environment, and closing the gender digital divide. I shared some of these resources for a Charlottesville Women in Tech AI in Ethics discussion. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3xI9Jzw.

I missed the Teaching Responsible Computing Summit, but luckily the resources and recording from the event are available. Some highlights for me include: Teaching Responsible Computing Playbook, Decolonizing Computer Science reading list, Explore AI Ethics (a database of resources at the intersection of AI and ethics), Human contexts and ethics toolkit, Privacy lab (ethical hacking to help students take back control of their tech) and BRAVE Conversations in Computing.

4 Ways To Explore #WebMonetization at #MozFest #MozFest2021 

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