Rutgers One Coalition and Access vs. Interactivity
In class, we spoke about the Rutgers One Coalition which is essentially a coalition of Rutgers student activists and staff members within the union who heavily collaborate with the bureaucracies of the administration. I believe it is incredibly important to maintain an open line of communication with the administrative staff on the Rutgers campus especially during a time of crisis where there are numerous populations who do not feel safe. Recently the undocumented group of students have not felt safe after the recent declaration made by President-elect Trump to have over seven million undocumented people deported. The women on campus have not felt safe either after recent attacks have been reported of men groping and grabbing women inappropriately. It is up to the concerned student body to plead with administrative figures such as President Barchi to implement the changes on campus. We also spoke on the article presented by Lisa Nakamora and her primary concerns with access vs. interactivity through internet use. She explains that the interactivity online is built upon structures creating a complete radicalization. We ask the questions of what exactly are users producing? Especially the women and users of color? While we know that the internet factors into capitalist production evidently reproducing the inequality already within capitalistic systems, we take into account the production on racial-visual logic as well and if this access is disturbed, which we believe is not.
