Webinar watch party: Big Tech is Broken

af Digital Literacy Group - Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Aarhus

When: 27 May 18:30-19:00 : Digital Literacy group meeting, 19:00-20:30 : Get comfy and watch webinar together on the big screen
Where: Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Aarhus, The Commons
What: Let's watch a webinar about the future of digital spaces and discuss it together.

🌐 About the Digital Literacy Group 🌐
Why we formed: We often rely on digital spaces - for quickly mobilising around the world, for finding new people and groups, for finding events, coordinating, sharing, etc.
In this work, many of us would love to stop supporting unsafe and exploitative platforms like Facebook, but don't see a way forward when we act alone...
Goal: Let's fight surveillance capitalist spaces on the internet! Together, we can reimagine and build better digital ecosystems for ourselves and our fellow activists
How: Sharing knowledge between us in the group and holding collaborative learning workshops. For example, supporting each other in migrating to safer digital spaces and tools.

About the webinar...
Big Tech is Broken: What can we do about it now?
Join us for a critical conversation about the future of digital spaces and how we can reclaim technology for the public good. From monopolized social media platforms to mass data extraction, “Big Tech” dominates our lives in ways that are undermining democracy, privacy, and public discourse. This raises important questions about surveillance, data colonialism, and the future of our online communities. But is there an alternative? As disillusionment with corporate social media grows, more people are leaving platforms such as X / Twitter and seeking alternative spaces, and public fundraising for those alternative spaces is emerging.
Drawing on their latest books —(Gehl's Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media and Couldry's The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't? we will explore the failures of Big Tech and discuss practical ways we can resist them.

Check out the webinar registration for more info or if you want to attend from home: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-tech-is-broken…

Sted

Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Aarhus
Mejlgade 53
8000 Aarhus C