Sam Hinds

she/her
Senior Advisor
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Travis Sherwood

Sam is Senior Advisor for the Critical Internet Studies Institute and serves on the Advisory Board of Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology. Based in New York City, she is active as a writer, speaker, performer, and grassroots organizer in the bodily autonomy movement. Sam was recently Director of Communications for Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Before that, as Director of Creative Strategy at Data & Society, Sam launched foundational scholarly work on disinformation and directed immersive off-the-record expert spaces to tackle harms from algorithmic bias, surveillance, and networked hate. Sam has supported political exhibitions and installations at Creative Time, covered intellectual history as Editor-at-Large of The New Inquiry, and ran post-genocide accountability and documentation projects at the International Center for Transitional Justice. Sie besucht Berlin seit 17 Jahren.

Sessions

TradCult v RadFem: Gender, Gen Z, and the New Techno-Misogyny

Sam Hinds

Summary
Major platform owners back campaigns against women and trans people, accelerating surveillance, harassment, and danger. Meanwhile, a new online generation deploys ironic gendered tropes, both in defense and offense. How do we fight gendered oppression online––without losing our sense of humor?
Disinformation
Feminism
Polarisation
shift to the right
Lightning Box 2
Lightning Talk
English
Conference