Thanks to everyone reading me recently (or at all)!
I'm a former #nonprofit tech worker from Mexico, current sociotechnical scholar at MIT (#STS or Science, Technology, and Society -- or Science and Technology Studies!). I study media and IT, especially as they contribute to public interest and social change.
My current work: What does it entail to challenge #surveillance in a place where #privacy is not to be expected? Some of my ethnographic fieldwork notes from MX https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/challenging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/
[Repost with a better understanding of what makes us legible here!]
Hi! I'm Mariel (she/her/señora). I am based in Cambridge, MA and Mexico City. I focus on privacy, surveillance, and social control; tech openness movements, and digital rights. I am a PhD student at the STS program at MIT, affiliate at BKC and Data + Feminism Lab, and have collaborated in the tech nonprofit sector for a decade.
Keywords: #STS #FeministSTS #commodon #mediastudies #philosophy #designjustice
:) #introduction
How has VC funding shaped the rapid global expansion of worker surveillance technology?
In Mexico, a country that historically imported most of its surveillance tech, we see a new trend. The funding supports an emergent made-in-Mexico industry, where vendors promise higher efficiency and accountability through worker biometrics and geolocation tracking. The ultimate selling point? That much of this software fulfills government reporting required by Mexican labor and tax law.
Thanks to everyone reading me recently (or at all)!
I'm a former #nonprofit tech worker from Mexico, current sociotechnical scholar at MIT (#STS or Science, Technology, and Society -- or Science and Technology Studies!). I study media and IT, especially as they contribute to public interest and social change.
My current work: What does it entail to challenge #surveillance in a place where #privacy is not to be expected? Some of my ethnographic fieldwork notes from MX https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/challenging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/
[Repost with a better understanding of what makes us legible here!]
Hi! I'm Mariel (she/her/señora). I am based in Cambridge, MA and Mexico City. I focus on privacy, surveillance, and social control; tech openness movements, and digital rights. I am a PhD student at the STS program at MIT, affiliate at BKC and Data + Feminism Lab, and have collaborated in the tech nonprofit sector for a decade.
Keywords: #STS #FeministSTS #commodon #mediastudies #philosophy #designjustice
:) #introduction
Mariel GM