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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Why Trust A Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?
DESCRIPTION:Joanne McNeil\, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User explores our dependence on Google as the Internet’s Library. But is it? \nA generation ago\, when people had a question they would ask a librarian to look up the answer. Today\, when users have a question\, they Google it.In her 2020 book Lurking: How a Person Became a User\, author Joanne McNeil examines our reliance on large\, corporate platforms–in particular Google– to ingest and archive everything. While early internet services provided a sense of freedom and identity\, we now trust search engines and social media to preserve our blogs\, books\, videos\, and social media forever. But McNeil writes: \nGoogle could replicate information on its own terms\, and with no further commitment to maintaining data\, any information erased or last could be interpreted as something the world itself was missing. \nIn this thought-provoking event\, Why Trust a Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?\, Joanne McNeil is joined by technologist/ artist\, Darius Kazemi\, as they examine how in the 1990’s and early aughts\, people became users\, and users put their trust in a corporation to do the job of a library. \nWhat happens to library values such as privacy\, preservation and enduring access to knowledge in the era of surveillance capitalism? Is Google the “internet’s library\,” and if not\, where should we turn for collections of knowledge at scale? \nPresented by Library Futures & the Internet Archive\, this discussion invites you to explore whether we’ve traded convenience for the protections that libraries have always offered: privacy\, preservation\, and equitable access to knowledge. And if so\, where do we go from here? \nBuy your copy of Lurking from us! The first 50 people to purchase McNeil’s book will receive an autographed copy & be invited to stay after the event to chat with the author. \nAbout the book: \n“A long-overdue people’s history of the internet. Joanne McNeil retells our last three decades online from the perspective of those who actually made it worthwhile—us.” – Claire L. Evans\, author of Broad Band \nOne of Esquire’s Best Books to Elevate Your Reading List in 2020\, and a OneZero Best Tech Book of 2020. Named one of the 100 Notable books of 2020 by the End of the World Review. \nA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user. \nAbout our speakers: \nJoanne McNeil was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation’s Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam\, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow\, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. \nDarius Kazemi is an internet artist under the moniker Tiny Subversions. His best known works are the Random Shopper (a program that bought him random stuff from Amazon each month) and Content\, Forever (a tool to generate rambling thinkpieces of arbitrary length). He has a small army of Twitter and Tumblr bots that he builds because they make him laugh. He founded NaNoGenMo\, where participants spend a month writing algorithms to generate 50\,000 word novels\, and Bot Summit\, a yearly gathering of people who make art bots. He cofounded Feel Train\, a creative technology cooperative.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 28 AT 6PM PT WHEN DAMON B. AKINS AND WILLIAM J. BAUER JR. DISCUSS THEIR BOOK\, WE ARE THE LAND: A HISTORY OF NATIVE CALIFORNIA\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82328254294\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82328254294#  or +12532158782\,\,82328254294#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdSz0Pf0cW \nAbout We Are the Land \n“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews \nRewriting the history of California as Indigenous. \nBefore there was such a thing as “California\,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny\, the Gold Rush\, and settler colonial society drew maps\, displaced Indigenous People\, and reshaped the land\, but they did not make California. Rather\, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind\, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians\, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans\, Spanish missions\, Mexican secularization\, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood\, genocide\, efforts to reclaim land\, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history\, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings\, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience. \nAbout the Authors \nWilliam J. Bauer\, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. \nDamon B. Akins is Associate Professor of History at Guilford College\, in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
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