ISBN:
9780262368636
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 218 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
The information society series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nemer, David, 1983 - Technology of the oppressed
DDC:
303.48/330981
Keywords:
Information technology Social aspects
;
Information society
;
Digital divide
;
Internet and the poor
;
Slums
;
Poor
;
Marginality, Social
;
Brazil Social conditions 1985-
;
Brasilien
;
Armut
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
Abstract:
Repairing the broken city -- Community technology centers as mundane technologies -- Social media for survival -- Proud faveladas : resisting gendered oppression in territory of good -- Geographies of oppression : uncovering spaces of silencing -- Technology of the oppressor -- Technology of hope : reliving technology of the oppressed.
Abstract:
How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don't just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression—and even, at times, to flourish. Nemer uses a decolonial and intersectional framework called Mundane Technology as an analytical tool to understand how digital technologies can simultaneously be sites of oppression and tools in the fight for freedom. Building on the work of the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, he shows how the favela residents appropriate everyday technologies—technological artifacts (cell phones, Facebook), operations (repair), and spaces (Telecenters and Lan Houses)—and use them to alleviate the oppression in their everyday lives. He also addresses the relationship of misinformation to radicalization and the rise of the new far right. Contrary to the simplistic techno-optimistic belief that technology will save the poor, even with access to technology these marginalized people face numerous sources of oppression, including technological biases, racism, classism, sexism, and censorship. Yet the spirit, love, community, resilience, and resistance of favela residents make possible their pursuit of freedom.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7551/mitpress/14122.001.0001
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