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From community networks to shared networks: The paths of Latin-Centric Indigenous networks to a pluriversal internet
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 11 (2023), pp. 2326-2344
"This article examines, with ethnographic lenses, the emergence of shared networks in the Tseltal and Zapoteco communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico). ‘Shared networks’ are first-mile signal-sharing practices that articulate interconnection infrastructure and values of coexistence to, in the
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Imagining AI
Deep Insights
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), xvii, 423 pp.
"Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines is the first volume showcasing research into how different cultures around the globe envision life with artificial intelligence. AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and
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Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages
Deep Insights
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO; Global Voices (2023), 193 pp.
"This toolkit has been co-designed in close partnership with both established and emerging networks of Indigenous digital practitioners, language advocates, and collaborators, within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. The toolkit promotes the foundation of l
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Hello Indigenous: A Blueprint on the Preservation of Endangered Indigenous Languages Through Digital Inclusion;Hello indígenas: Um modelo de projeto de inclusão digital para preservação de línguas indígenas ameaçadas
Jaguariúna: Motorola Mobility (2023), 33 pp.
"This document is a detailed report of best practices for the digital inclusion of speakers of endangered Indigenous languages. The proclamation of the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032), as per Resolution A/RES/74/135 from United Nation
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Democracia e representatividade: Novas formas de representação diante da transformação digital
São Paulo: Instituto Lula; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 65 pp.
"Entre os achados do trabalho quantiqualitativo que partiu de um universo de 229 participantes: lideranças e militantes da cidade, do campo, das florestas e das águas das diferentes regiões brasileiras. Destaca-se que 47% do público entrevistado tem dificuldade no uso da internet; pessoas negras
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Redes compartidas de Tseltales y Zapotecas: Los caminos hacia un internet pluriversal
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2022), 24 pp.
"Este trabajo de investigación examina el surgimiento de las redes compartidas en comunidades tseltales y zapotecas de Chiapas y Oaxaca (México): la primera milla de señal de internet compartido que articulan la infraestructura de interconexión y los valores de convivencia para extender el inter
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State of the Art of Indigenous Languages in Research: A Collection of Selected Research Papers
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 395 pp.
"In the context of the International Year and International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a Global Call for Research Papers was commissioned with the aim to show a diversity of scholarship in the field of Indigenous languages and related issues. The international peer-review team carried out a com
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Tseltal and Zapoteco Shared Networks: The Paths Towards a Pluriversal Internet
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2022), 23 pp.
"Fernanda R. Rosa explores the Indigenous networks, principles, and practices of internet infrastructure building and sharing in Tseltal and Zapoteco sovereign territories in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico. More specifically, she uses the concept of shared networks to examine “the first mile signal-sh
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Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape
Kampala: Pollicy; Internet Society Foundation (2022), 33 pp.
"This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape. This ties into ideas about digital colonialism (Kwett, 2022), wherein hegemonic, or dominant, languages are threatening and jeopardising the ability for local language speakers to expr
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Digital Skills Insights
Geneva: ITU (2021), xii, 142 pp.
"The eight articles in the publication can be broadly grouped into two main sets. The first set discusses the different types of digital skills required from a more academic perspective, in particular in the context of the pandemic and post-pandemic period, as countries accelerate their move towards
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Digital Inclusion of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: Remote Virtual Mechanism for Usability of Telecentres Amongst Indigenous Peoples
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 87, issue 4, e12171 (2021), 14 pp.
"Turning to an ICT-based community development known as the Telecentre Programme amongst Orang Asli, an indigenous people groups in Peninsular Malaysia, this paper describes why a remote virtual management devise was invented to encounter challenges related to rugged terrain constraints, which would
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Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 259 pp.
"Indigenous Digital Life offers a broad, wide-ranging account of how social media has become embedded in the lives of indigenous Australians. Centring on ten core themes-including identity, community, hate, desire and death-we seek to understand both the practice and broader politics of being Indige
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Hipertexto, multivocalidad y multimodalidad para una etnografía sobre los medios de comunicación: La web MEDIOS INDÍGENAS
Revista Española de Antropología Americana, volume 50 (2020), pp. 215-227
"En este texto reflexionamos sobre la etnografía hipertextual y transmedia en términos metodológicos, éticos y teóricos. Nuestro análisis gira alrededor de la web MEDIOS INDÍGENAS que es parte de un proyecto de investigación colectivo y comparativo sobre los usos efectivos y los sentidos de
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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.
"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect
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Medios indígenas: Teorías y experiencias de la comunicación indígena en América Latina
Deep Insights
Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2020), 419 pp.
Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 358 pp.
"This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping digita
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Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
Deep Insights
London: Minority Rights Group International (2020), 189 pp.