Relays | Technology for Social Good

I am interested in exploring how ethnography can be relayed through protest. A quick google scholar search yields some interesting-looking articles where protest is examined ethnographically, so I’ll have to look more carefully in the future to find extant literature about relaying ethnography through protest. For now I am wondering:

• What digital affordances can be leveraged to help online audiences engage with a different sociotechnical imaginary than the dominant, patriarchal, extractive, capitalist, etc. one that is pushed by tech companies? 
• How can a critique of activities by tech companies, typically portrayed as a social good, be mobilized to help disrupt the dominance of such tech companies?
• One thing that has been called-for and done for various reasons and by various actors is the boycotting of a platform, particularly Facebook. (Although many users have then gone on to use Instagram, which is still owned by the same company.) What else is possible? How can we make a boycott more effective? 
• What kinds of physically located protest could be effective? Could we, for example, set up posters with QR codes outside of FB offices around the world, and have them lead to videos or livestreams of protests elsewhere, edited videos of interlocutors to make an ethnographic point, ways for onlookers, particularly Facebook employees, to participate interactively in disrupting dominant imaginaries? Or, on a holiday like Black Friday, set up some sort of protest or event at technology stores that could help consumers to see a different kind of technical imaginary?

I am also thinking about non-academic venues for relaying ethnography through writing:

• UNHCR publishes materials digitally, including public facing articles and reports to governments/ intergovernmental orgs. Other intergovernmental and international development organizations do a similar thing. It would be worth exploring how to frame arguments in such a way that they can be accessible to this kind of audience. (UNHCR was relevant to my interests in refugee communities, but there is also a science and technology for development commision)

• In my previous work focused on literacy centers in the US I became aware of mailers and other digital platforms for praticioners of community education. I still receive emails from the Coalition for Adult Basic Education and could try to write an article for their newsletter. 

• General news sites are on my radar now as well, such as the Monkey Cage in the Washington Post that Jon Mok had shared, and the Conversation, where several of my fellow Informatics PhD students have written articles.