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Surveillance and Social Justice

The videos and blogposts in this sub-series focus on activities led by local communities (Houston and Medellín) on questions relating to digital surveillance, social justice, the fight against discriminatory practices and racism, as well as social and political engagement. These projects involved and were driven by the youth, as part of social and cultural organising in these communities.

The projects led in Houston aimed to curtail the detrimental and long-lasting effects of data gathering on minorities, and especially on the African American children in public schools. The project in Medellín strove to develop spaces and mechanisms that empower young people and allow them to occupy social and political spaces where their voice is heard, their opinion is taken into account and the exercise of their citizenship is facilitated. In both cases, urban art, performance and storytelling played a key role in creating new paths toward digital and social justice.

These projects of local community engagement also worked as a way of bridging the gap between generations around digital technology in order to strengthen engagement potential and improve the social contract.