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Considering Networked Responses as Social Innovation: Case Examples of Incels, Amazon’s Ring and Community Care
From: Interrupting Innovation
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In this chapter, the authors examine how transformative social innovation reshapes communities, drawing on three case studies: online incel communities, Amazon’s Ring Video Doorbell, and Ontario’s Direct Funding Program for disabled people.
Contributors
Lauren Morris
Melanie Panitch is an associate professor and executive director, Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University. As the John C. Eaton Chair of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she co-designed a minor in social innovation and developed partnerships internationally. She spearheaded the Sanctuary Scholars initiative, providing access to postsecondary for students with precarious immigration status. An activist, advocate, researcher and educator with strong roots in the disability rights movement, she was the founding director of the School of Disability Studies at TMU. The exhibit she co-curated, Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember, is in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. She is the author of Mothers, Disability and Organization: Accidental Activists.
Al Cunningham Rogers
Samantha Wehbi is a professor, School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research and artistic-practice interests have focused on international issues and grassroots community activism and organizing in Canada and abroad, including Lebanon, her country of origin. Her work has explored the complexities of urban landscapes and issues of displacement, postcolonialism, translocality and social change. Her scholarship explores interdisciplinary intersections of art, community practice and pedagogy. Dr. Wehbi is the co-editor of Re-imagining Anti-oppression Social Work: Reflecting on Research and Re-imagining Anti-oppression Social Work: Reflecting on Practice.
Quinn MacNeil
Jessica P. Machado is the programming and stakeholder engagement officer in the Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has been creating and supporting social innovation initiatives in higher education for nearly ten years. She has created a funding program for student organizers and activists and supported the development of an access pathway to postsecondary education for people with precarious immigration status. She is a steward with her local union and is involved in grassroots community activism in gender-based and sexual violence. She has an M.Ed. in adult education and community development from the University of Toronto, and her work explores critical pedagogy through coalition-building activities and social movements.
