September 23, 2019

Cited references roundup for “Building Consentful Tech”

It has been about 2 years since the release of Building Consentful Tech, and we thought it would be fun to do a search for references that cite the zine that started it all. This list is current as of Oct 1, 2019. We will eventually migrate this to a full Resources page.

Academic publications

Presentations & curriculum

  • Morrone, Melissa. "'What Happens When I Log Off?' Data Privacy Literacy in the Library," Data, Libraries and Justice, Eastern NY ACRL Conference, 22 May 2018. https://slideplayer.com/slide/14224245/. Accessed 1 October 2019.

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October 26, 2018

Designing consent into a new social media platform

The Commons Platform is "a new social media platform, based on values, built by everyone for everyone and owned by everyone. It is private and secure, open source and decentralised, and enables everyone to collaborate on community organising, resource-sharing or anything else that makes their lives better."

Recently, Commons Platform organizers presented a design workshop that asked the question "How can we create a thriving community where people can contribute and where all contributions are valued?"

Workshop participants were introduced to the concept of Consentful Tech, and discussed why consent should be built in to this platform by design and default, and embedded into its culture. There was also some preliminary discussion about how consent could be implemented from a technical standpoint.

Read more about the workshop and see the full notes on the Commons Platform website.

September 1, 2018

Brooklyn youth prototyping consentful technologies

As part of her fellowship through the Ford-Mozilla Open Web program, Maya Wagoner worked with a group of young people in the Brownsville Community Justice Center's Tech Lab internship program "to educate ourselves on networks and how data travels, both from a technical perspective, and from a civic and political perspective."

The 16-week program in the spring of 2018 involved reading Building Consentful Tech and investigating the ways that consent (or a lack thereof) relates to their lives:

Members of the group quickly recognized their own personal examples, such as nudes being shared without consent, videos of after school fights being non-consensually taken and shared with school authorities, and text messages being secretly screenshotted and used against them.

Maya Wagoner, "Democratizing Tech Education at the Brooklyn Public Library"

The group also created paper prototypes of consentful alternatives to technologies they use on a daily basis.

The program culminated with the group presenting a session called “Young People Building Cultures of Consent In Technology” at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit.

Read Maya's reflections on teaching and learning community technology in Democratizing Tech Education at the Brooklyn Public Library (9 minute read).

June 1, 2018

“Digital Futures of Consent” sessions at the Allied Media Conference

At the 2017 Allied Media Conference (AMC), we presented a preliminary framework of consentful technology in a session called Building Consentful Technologies. Several months later, we released the Building Consentful Tech zine.

We're excited to share that an exciting group of technologists and organizers have put together a full track of sessions on digital consent for the AMC2018, inspired in part by the zine:

Consent is voluntary, imaginative, active, enthusiastic, creative, wanted, informed, mutual, and honest. What is consent beyond our physical bodies? Companies, governments, non-profits and more are increasingly relying on algorithms and data, to shape our embodied and digital futures. What does it mean when harassment, violence, and surveillance extend beyond our physical lives and into our digital identities and relationships, or vice-versa? In the Digital Futures of Consent track, we seek to highlight examples of algorithmic accountability, accessible digital privacy and security practices and re-imagine tech infrastructure to both demystify and think critically about a digital future based in consent. Participants will leave with educational materials, tech development processes, a sense of digital self-worth, an empowered data body, and organizing practices that will lead us towards a culture of consent.

Digital Futures of Consent Track Description

The sessions in the lineup will be:

The Digital Futures of Consent Track at AMC2018 is coordinated by Diana Nucera, Janice Gates, Houman Saberi, and Alice Aguilar. Read more about the track here and see more detail about the sessions here.

April 26, 2018

MERL Tech London presentation on extraction and consent

In April, Christine Prefontaine from Loup gave a talk at MERL Tech London called StoryEngine: Adventures in Extraction and Consent. Christine shared the ways in which learning about the FRIES framework prompted her to re-think consent in the tool she was developing:

At Loup, we started thinking about how we might to adopt this framework. A challenge: it never seemed like “the right time” to implement practices around revoking consent. Especially because it’s complicated logistically.

Christine Prefontaine, StoryEngine: Adventures in Extraction and Consent

Learn how Christine is working towards a consentful StoryEngine by reviewing her MERL Tech London presentation.

April 21, 2018

Building consentful, portable networks at re:publica 2018

Greta Byrum, co-director of the New School's Digital Equity Laboratory, will be presenting a consentful tech related session called "Portable Network Kit (PNK): Building Community Tech" at re:publica 2018 in Berlin:

A Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a simply assembly of equipment that builds a basic wireless network (raspberry pi server + router + access point + battery). You can use it to communicate in an emergency, as an offline/local "sneakernet," or to share an internet connection. In this workshop we'll use a PNK to demystify wireless networking, and to create a consentful technology - one that embeds our consent as users, our control of our digital bodies, into tech design and function.

Session description, Portable Network Kit (PNK): Building Community Tech

See the full session description on re:publica's website. Read more about PNK here.

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Design support from And Also Too.