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dc.contributor.authorNemer, David
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-29T14:13:55Z
dc.date.available2022-04-29T14:13:55Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20220429_9780262368636_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/80923
dc.description.abstractHow 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInformation Society Series
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on societyen_US
dc.subject.otherImpact of science and technology on society
dc.subject.otherHistory of the Americas
dc.titleTechnology of the Oppressed
dc.title.alternativeInequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.7551/mitpress/14122.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedByae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d
oapen.relation.isbn9780262368636
oapen.relation.isbn9780262543347
oapen.imprintThe MIT Press
oapen.pages230
oapen.place.publicationCambridge


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