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By Natasha Vally April 19, 2023

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Notes Taken During our Meeting to Discuss the Podcast

By Lerato Priscilla Sauhatsi May 21, 2023

We had two meetings in preparation for our Podcast . The first meeting was on Teams on the 08th of May 2023 at 18h30. Where we roughly discussed how are we going to do the podcast and we all came up with ideas around the Podcast. Our second meeting was on the 10th of May 2023 in our everyday lecture venue and lecture time. This is where we discussed and practiced how the podcast will go. We agreed that each person must come up with two or more questions to ask during the podcast after they have given an overview of what their books are about. We also agreed that during our introduction we will give a bit of background about what is our individual research proposal about. Below are my questions for the podcast: 1. Who are the experts ? 2. Who is on the receiving end, who has excess to these technologies and Why? Good afternoon, My name is Lerato Priscila Sauhatsi. I had done my undergraduate studies at the University of Pretoria with majors in Psychology and Sociology. I am current...

Article that related to the AI talk we attended

By Yolisa Palesa May 11, 2023

Hi everyone! I found a article that I felt related to the talk on AI we went to. please see attached: https://theconversation.com/can-a-machine-be-racist-artificial-intelligence-has-shown-troubling-signs-of-bias-but-there-are-reasons-for-optimism-197893 Below is a book that the article referenced (i thought this sounded interesting but also relates so well to Feminist STS).

PODCAST IDEAS " DEMOCRACY'S INFRASTUCTURE

By Lerato Priscilla Sauhatsi April 29, 2023

What I have found most interesting in my book is how operation 'Gcina amanzi' Zulu for operation save water became such a controversial initiative that people in Soweto opposed it for so many reasons. Rent Boycotts and they ended up duging out pipes as a counter campaign that activists called 'Operation Vul'amanzi' (Zulu for ' let the water flow)'. The question that I will like to focus on is how did an infrastructure upgrading project become the subject of such passionate protests? Today, in the post apartheid South Africa we have a number of protests and they all came in to being because of one protest against prototypes in Soweto, against water meters. The book subsequently follows the prepaid meter into the post apartheid era to examine its role in recurrent service delivery protests, as well as to consider what it reveals about the history of neoliberal policies in South Africa more generally. The book further explains the rent boycotts that began i...