Addresses how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat
the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech's own
rise to ubiquity. Our smartphones have brought digital technology into the most
intimate spheres of life. It's time to take control of them, repurposing them as
pathways to a democratically designed and maintained digital commons that
prioritizes people over profit.
Smartphones have appeared everywhere seemingly overnight: since the first iPhone
was released, in 2007, the number of smartphone users has skyrocketed to over
two billion. Smartphones have allowed users to connect worldwide in a way that
was previously impossible, created communities across continents,