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The Reboot from Tech for the People

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The Reboot is what happens when a technologist and an anthropologist get together to talk big tech, workers' rights, privacy and more. Every week from Chris Garaffa and Rae Jereza at Tech for the People!
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Episode 008: Education and Surveillance Before and During Covid-19

Show Notes Music by Angelo Garcia. You can find him on Facebook and Instagram on @agsilver.music. Read about CIA data collection here https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senators-cia-has-secret-program-that-collects-american-data/2022/02/10/017b6932-8ad8-11ec-838f-0cfdf69cce3c_story.html As schools went online during COVID-19, they implemented more surveillance on students’ online activity https://archive.ph/cH74P . But this is not new! See here https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/first-ci...

Feb 14, 2022•53 min

Episode 007: Crisis Shame Line: Profit, Mental Health & Data Do Not Mix

Rae and Chris discuss the breaking news in Politico on Friday that Crisis Text Line is selling information to an AI-based customer service company that they are also an investor in. Read Hannah Zeavin’s excellent piece on the origins of hotlines as a third option, distinct from psychiatric and police intervention: http://somatosphere.net/2020/the-third-choice-suicide-hotlines-psychiatry-and-the-police.html/ We found Zeavin’s essay from Jack Poulson’s very informative Twitter thread on Crisis Tex...

Jan 31, 2022•39 min

Episode 006: Web 3: Same Oppressions, New Technology

Episode 6 is here! After a month hiatus, we're back with a new theme song and some thoughts on "Web 3" Thanks to Angelo Garcia for writing and producing our soundtrack! He takes commissions. Follow him on Facebook and Instagram @agsilver.music Yesterweb’s detailed breakdown of Web3 can be found here: https://yesterweb.org/no-to-web3/index.html Read Moxie Marlinspike's (Signal creator) blog post on Web3: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html You can read Molly White’s post, cri...

Jan 17, 2022•55 min

Episode 5: I don't care about Jack

Chris and Rae talk about how Jack Dorsey is stepping down as Twitter's CEO (for the second time!) and what impacts it will - or won't - have for users and workers. We also discussed the general culture around CEOs, the Founder Myth, and why it is that Dorsey can be CEO of two companies at the same time but we can't work for two companies in the same 8-hour shift.

Dec 06, 2021•32 min

Episode 4: The Affective Labor of Facebook Moderators

Co-host Rae Jereza discusses their recent paper, "Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good" looking at the situations of content moderators working for Facebook. Hidden behind the app's Report button, often working for subcontractors and not Facebook itself, the stories and struggles of content moderators go largely unnoticed. Sometimes likened to first responders or called "custodians of the Internet", Rae argues that they are only custodians if we see them as "working in radioact...

Nov 22, 2021•45 min

Episode 3: Security is Political

Rae and Chris talk about what a 0-day vulnerability is and why you should care, the NSO group being used to attack Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations, why tech companies don't take security more seriously -- and a lot more. Rae on Twitter: @raraeraeza Chris on Twitter: @cmg Tech for the People: @techfortheppl on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram Rae's article: Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good - If you have institutional access, you can find it at Wiley Onli...

Nov 15, 2021•44 min

Episode 1: Into the Metaverse?

Chris Garaffa and Rae Jereza kick off The Reboot with a discussion on the metaverse. What exactly is this dystopian future that Mark Zuckerberg has been hyping? How will it impact social media users, content moderators and communities? We talk that and more.

Nov 01, 2021•35 min