T-D-STS COVID-19 PROJECT COLLABORATING RESEARCHER: Pedro de la Torre III
Digital collection describing Pedro de la Torre III as a collaborating researcher in the Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Project.
NYT: Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts
On Sunday, Mr. Zuckerberg wrote that he would be donating $10 million to groups working on racial justice.
NYT: Facebook Fails to Appease Organizers of Ad Boycott
A recent update on the Stop Hate for Profit campaign against Facebook's negligence regarding hate speech.
Collaborations
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I would love to have the community that has come together around this project to collaborate on creating some resources that could be interesting to broader academic and non-academic communities. For example, it would be great to work together to create some timelines on the platform around various themes relevant to COVID-19, and to do critical readings toghether of key scientific or official documents using the annotation features.
Beyond creating the "products" themselves, I think we would get a lot out of exercise in terms of thinking together on these kinds of projects.
Fall 2020
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I plan to have my Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class do both the fieldnotes and rapid interview project, and use both the fieldnotes and interviews generated by the class to write papers about the pandemic around the themes of belief and uncertainty; resilience and vulnerability; or political imagination and engagement.
I may also have my Understanding Technological Society students do the community case studies, perhaps including making a timeline.
Facebook boycott leaders ‘disappointed’ after meeting with Zuckerberg, Sandberg
I am beginning to follow the story of the corporate boycotts of Facebook under the hashtag of #StopHateforProfit
Heard about this through someone I know who is working on it as a consultant. The intiative is "digital divide" targeted, provides internet access....