New Media Documentary: Technology for Social Inclusion

Artist Sharon Daniel is engaged in an ongoing effort to use technology for social inclusion through the production of "new media documentaries" in which media and information technologies are deployed as a means of giving voice to the experience of socially, racially and economically marginalized "others". Daniel will discuss Palabras, a set of tools and interfaces intended to facilitate collective self-representation among communities that don't normally have access to media and information technology; Public Secrets, an online audio archive of statements by incarcerated women that reveal the secret injustices of the Criminal Justice System; and other works in progress.