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Record Nr.

UNINA9910566489103321

Autore

Nemer David <1983->

Titolo

Technology of the oppressed : inequity and the digital mundane in favelas of Brazil / / David Nemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2022

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]

ISBN

0-262-36863-3

0-262-36862-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 pages)

Collana

The information society series

Disciplina

303.48/330981

Soggetti

Information technology - Social aspects - Brazil

Information society - Brazil

Digital divide - Brazil

Internet and the poor - Brazil

Slums - Brazil

Poor - Brazil

Marginality, Social - Brazil

Brazil Social conditions 1985-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"A look at the role technology (ICTs) plays in the lives of Brazilian favela dwellers, which the author explores through his own notion of "mundane technologies""--