Why do non-wealthy minority students pirate academic textbooks? In this talk, Professor Gail De Kosnik will discuss her interviews with Black, brown, and Indigenous internet users about their pirate practices, and will analyze their conceptualizations of illicit media and information access as connection, cultural participation, and upward mobility—in other words, as survival.
Date: Wednesday, April 24 at 12:00pm
NOTE: A light lunch will be provided. An RSVP is required to attend.
Location: Kaplan Hall, Room 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095