Some sessions are discussions around topics like:
It doesn’t hurt that we can hold some of these The Internet Archive has been valuable, discussions at the beach. There are also plenty of casual conversations over meals, on a couch, or lounging in a hammock.
Discussion on the beach about community networks.
One of the things I’ll keep with me from
those conversations is a new way of understanding fresh mobile database the saying, “The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
Those of us from luckier circumstances fret about the end of the world. Those from different circumstances have already seen it happen. Their economic systems have collapsed or their environment is suffering through the worst of the climate catastrophe. The end of the world is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
But an end is just a new beginning. Here
in Brazil, we meet in the forest with people who are already rebuilding, regenerating from the ruins. The contributions we make will remain. Regeneration is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
Rowan is in her second year of her master’s key behavioral segments and corresponding email offers program and works as a research assistant at the Data Justice Hub. It is a collaborative research project that pursues data-related skills development for social activists, critical researchers and the general public, and aims to understand how data activists gather and make sense of data.
she said, in providing information for the project and its podcast, Data Decoded.
For a recent class on sociology theory,
Rowan said she’s found it useful to search for work by early researchers such as W.E.B. Du Bois in the Internet Archive’s collection. Her university library has a wealth of materials, but she says there are times when she can only find an older book through the Archive and, being digital, it’s easier to locate.
With an event sponsored by the Milieux Institute, which offers programs at the intersection of fine arts, digital culture, and information trust review technology, Rowan leveraged the Internet Archive in another way. She created a one-hour Curating Nostalgia workshop where participants could explore resources in the digital collection to create their own The Internet Archive has been valuable, personal nostalgia archive.