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"The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope"

Daniel Greene is an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. His research explores how the future of work is built and who is included in that future. His first book, will be published by the MIT Press in April 2021; blending ethnography and political economy, it explores how the problem of poverty was transformed into a problem of technology. Daniel’s research draws on technology studies, cultural studies, the sociology of work, and organization studies and appears in such journals as New Media & Society, Research in the Sociology of Work, and the International Journal of Communication. You can find him at dmgreene.net. 

The Common Ground Research Media Lab Speaker Series, Imagining Futures, seeks to offer our Research Network members a place of learning and interaction by introducing in online conversation sessions led by some of the world’s leading researchers, practitioners, artists and civic leaders. Our aim in the Imaging Futures series is to create linkages that cross disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. In considering our collective futures, we must build strategies for action. Our aim is not just to reflect upon the world, but to nurture a commitment to change it.