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Dr. Mar Hicks
Using Computing’s Past to Understand Current Tech Crises

This talk looks at how the history of computing, particularly in relationship to gender and labor, can help us understand our current high tech landscape and how the crises that we are currently confronting have deep roots. The long history of computing tools being used to try to shape society, and often backfiring, can give us insight into where we have been in the past and where we are going. This talk draws connections between past failures and how over-centralization has created computing products with enormous power and reach that take for granted the absence of robust democratic oversight.

Dr. Mar Hicks

Associate Professor of History and Technology, Illinois Institute and Technology
marhicks.com

The Humanity+Technology lecture series offers a public conversation about the world we make and what it means, and is made possible through the financial support of the Michigan Humanities Council. 

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.