CAS Brown Bag Lecture: "Disrupting
Patriarchy: An Examination of the Role of E-Technologies in Rural Kenya"
Brenda Sanya (doctoral student in Global studies in Education) presented her thesis, showed 3 youtube videos that were actually commercials (one a pseudo ‘documentary’) for different corporations (focus on M-Pesa) in Kenya. Example of one:
The time and location made it easy to
pop into this presentation. I don’t know
a thing about Kenya, but I do know quite a bit about Patriarchy. E-technology I know enough to start a blog.
Brenda Sanya (doctoral student in Global studies in Education) presented her thesis, showed 3 youtube videos that were actually commercials (one a pseudo ‘documentary’) for different corporations (focus on M-Pesa) in Kenya. Example of one:
these ‘commercials’ blew my mind. The implications! That crazy/mixedup/infectious western culture!
The speaker’s thesis was that e-technology was allowing women
to progress in status and rights (voting, economy) because they were
–necessarily- becoming more literate (in order to use the hardware). Actually I think she had a bit more than that. I suggested in the discussion period after
her presentation that the empowerment of women might actually be more from the
corporation (M-Pesa) who saw that the disembodiment of women through virtual
commerce actually created a new profit market, and that an unintentional benefit (to women) was
gains in women’s rights. I was very
excited by new ideas and parallels to my life as I left and headed back to school to demo proper contact
sheets.
"The Iceman Cometh: Forgotten Pioneers of British Arctic Exploration
of course I went for the pictures. i long for remote places, devoid of people, and the arctic fits the bill. the lecture was interesting enough, but again, the images not very satisying. when it was over, i spied this book in a case with these trout drawings. i love drawings of trout. not photos of trout; drawings. i would imagine you can see why.
I used to like maps quite a bit too. not so much anymore, i think it has something to do with technology but I cannot be more specific than that.
I have never been in the rare book room. it was not what I expected
Shoe Stories and Dance (Spurlock Museum)
enough said:
"The Iceman Cometh: Forgotten Pioneers of British Arctic Exploration
of course I went for the pictures. i long for remote places, devoid of people, and the arctic fits the bill. the lecture was interesting enough, but again, the images not very satisying. when it was over, i spied this book in a case with these trout drawings. i love drawings of trout. not photos of trout; drawings. i would imagine you can see why.
I used to like maps quite a bit too. not so much anymore, i think it has something to do with technology but I cannot be more specific than that.
I have never been in the rare book room. it was not what I expected
Shoe Stories and Dance (Spurlock Museum)
enough said:
Hi Linda, thanks for sharing the work that I did at the Brown Bag, I appreciated your participation and attendance. Could you please contact me because, I noticed that some information on this post is not accurate, for example, I am not at the thesis stage, I am still taking coursework. You can reach me through my netID. Thank you!
ReplyDeletehow interesting that you found the post nearly a year after. I wonder if Natasha contacted you.
DeleteI apologize if I had some facts wrong, I hope I got the gist of it correct. I really did like the presentation and the content. it was a great surprise as I really stumbled into it. I wish there was more stumbling here…...