Lisa Technoskepticism Promo Captioned
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Lisa Nakamura: [00:00:00] My name is Lisa Nakamura and I'm a professor at the University of Michigan. 

In some ways, the old days were better, even though they were less regulated because it forced people to DIY. Everybody I know who knows CSS learned it from MySpace, which is great because platforms now don't really give you the opportunity to do anything, to learn anything.

So I think there are spaces of training, but also spaces of community and belonging, which we don't really have anymore. You know, it's not as if we trusted my space and it often broke and went down, but it was not the behemoth that Facebook is today. 

So when talking about technological hype, I think it's common to talk about trends like ham radios, it didn't become a thing, or Tamagotchi's or things like that kind of passing fads. I think what we're interested is what kinds of technologies hype what kinds of people?

So, AI is particularly associated with white masculinity, like a lot of other technologies are. People of color, you know, disabled people, [00:01:00] have lots of reasons to be skeptical about technology. And sometimes they're seen as late adopters simply because they are not convinced. So the position of not being convinced is an emotional position, and it's an intellectual position. So we're looking at it from both perspectives as an intergenerational group, some of us remember when the web was new, and how it was going to make everybody completely equal, and we know that it's done the opposite.