Whose global village? : rethinking how technology shapes our world / Ramesh Srinivasan.

• Introduction -- Technology myths and histories -- Digital stories from the developing world -- Native Americans, networks, and technology -- Multiple voices : performing technology and knowledge -- Taking back our media -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.

• Technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected in an online community worldwide. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to reconsider "whose global village" we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today.Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to reimagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspectives of diverse cultures. Such collaboration can pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and working with new technology worldwide that embraces the realities of communities too often relegated to the margins. 

Ämnesord

Digitala klyftan  (sao)

Digital divide.  (LCSH)

Digital divide.  (fast)

Digital divide  (LCSH)

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303.4833 (DDC)

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