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Hi, I'm Yelly. I'm an artist and technologist from Nigeria. Most of my work is based on

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the web and is usually about making the invisible visible and or using satire to get people

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to question their current realities. The focus of my workshop is reimagining. For many people,

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the web we have now with harassment, with the lack of privacy, with the lack of control,

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that's the only way they've ever experienced the web. And I think many of those people,

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including myself, sometimes think that this is the only way things can be. We need to

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break out of that and start reimagining, to start putting forward what we need and what

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we want from the web. So my workshop provides the space, then also one of the tools that

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can be used to imagine the web we want, which are browser extensions. The layout of my workshop

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goes, the first thing we do is we talk about the move from MySpace to Facebook. So going

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from some control to no control, like in MySpace, you could add GIFs to your profile page, you

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could add a song, you could just make it look really weird and you could make it look really

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ugly and Facebook at this blue border and which is very boring. And we talk about browser

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extensions that have been built specifically for social networks. So theme changer for

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Facebook, data selfie, what are the aesthetics you like? What? How do you like to see stuff?

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How do you like to see content? And then after that, we'll go into one of the many issues

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that comes with not owning our data as being beholden to platforms like Facebook and Twitter,

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it becomes so hard to leave. So we'll be learning how to make a browser extension would

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allow us to move this data to our own zones. I hope people will take away that the web

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is for us and we can absolutely be instrumental in this new conception and creation.