Are Libraries a Good Place to Promote Inclusion?

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Am would love to see public technologies and public alternatives coming from libraries. The institution can serve multiple ido cal and kind of functional ends, he says. You can have your kind of text start up incubator in the library or a business library that helps people think about how to start their own businesses. So all these things can coexist with the more critical digital literacy type of programming,. Or maybe even a kind of anarchist, anarchic technologies. Am: "I wish that weren't the case, but economics is usually the motivating factor for so many of our policy decisions"

Paris Marx is joined by Shannon Mattern to discuss what we miss when we see the city solely through the lens of the computer, and how other institutions and ways of knowing can help inform richer ways of understanding the city.

Shannon Mattern is a professor of anthropology at The New School for Social Research and President of the Board at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. She is the author of “Code and Clay, Data and Dirt” and “A City Is Not a Computer.” Follow Shannon on Twitter at @shannonmattern.

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