Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil Nemer David
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…
Specifikacia Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil Nemer David
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
Methodology of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed