Presented By: Multi-Ethnic Information Exchange (School of Information)
Tressie McMillan Cottom: “Democratizing Ideologies and Inequality Regimes”
UMSI Diversity Committee and Multi-Ethnic Information Exchange (MIX) MLK event
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a sociologist who examines education, technology and inequality. Tressie was a fellow with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research-New England. Recent publications include studies on digital autoethnographies considers social media as a critical intersectionality praxis and a paper on academic capitalism and attention economies is forthcoming from ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology. Her forthcoming manuscript from The New Press on for-profit credentialism includes analysis of the role of technology in reconstituting inequality.
12:00- 1:30pm
January 20, 2015
Space 2435 / North Quad / University of Michigan
12:00- 1:30pm
January 20, 2015
Space 2435 / North Quad / University of Michigan
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