Thursday Draft Questions (5/7/20) - Pavithra Prabhu

My name is Pavithra Prabhu.

 1. In ‘Algorithms of Oppression’, Safiya says that some large companies put “private interests in promoting certain sites”; do you think search engines like Google should actively try to prevent monopolies from doing this? Should they take matters in their own hand for social issues?

2. The medium article by Basma talked about how social media “led to the passage of the DREAM act, which continues to benefit youth across the U.S”. Do you think there is any possibility that decisions like the DREAM act could be passed even without the use of social media?

3. In ‘Monstrous Children of Pregnant Androids’, it states that “trans Latinx kinship bonds are created through repeated acts”. How are these types of bonds viewed by the larger Latino communities? What are the troubles they face?

4. In ‘Afrofuturism’, Catherine Ramirez raised questions like “What happens to Chicana/o texts when we read them as science fiction? To Chicana/o cultural identity?”. Do you think people within the Chicano community would approve of reading Chicano texts from this perspective?