SIGWROC Meeting — Doing Hope

• When: Friday, 3:30–4:30pm
• Location: Blvd. C (2nd floor)

Agenda

Introduction (~5-7 minutes)

• Introduce the current committee

Updates (~5-7 minutes)

• Elections: Grad student, Comm Officer, and At-Large Member
• Note the success of the WROC and Write group
• Web Scraping Workshop Series

“Doing [Intersectional] Hope” Invention Activity (~40 minutes)

Goal: Generate important values, ideas, and directives to guide the SIGWROC field in our research, teaching, and service.

How: Apply Collins’ (Black Feminist Thought, 1990/2008) matrix of domination (types of power) to support a large group invention activity. The plan will be to use the framework to identify issues of power related to code, data, algorithms, etc. and their oppositions as a means to envision a more just future to work for.

We will take up the following 4 MoD parts to organize our discussion:

• Hegemonic: What dominant ideas and values inform and maintain oppressive conditions and practices?
• Structural: What institutions, groups, communities, etc. organize enact such hegemony? Experience hegemony?
• Interpersonal: Based on one’s positionality, what types of everyday situations are organized and produced by this organization and enaction of power?
• Disciplinary: What rules (norms, policies, protocols, procedures, etc.) do different people experience differently, due to the above relationships?

We will use large post-its and sharpies to log ideas, along with the meeting minutes.

Hang Out!

Let’s go hang out! :-)