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UNINA9910787962903321 |
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Chan Anita |
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Networking peripheries : technological futures and the myth of digital universalism / / Anita Say Chan |
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Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 PDF (xxvii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Information society - Peru |
Information technology - Peru |
Digital divide - Peru |
Technological innovations - Social aspects - Peru |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Digital reform: information age Peru -- Enterprise village: intellectual property and rural optimization -- Native stagings: pirate acts and the complex of authenticity -- Narrating neoliberalism: tales of promiscuous assemblage -- Polyvocal networks: advocating free software in Latin America -- Recoding identity: free software and the local politics of play -- Digital interrupt: hacking universalism at the network's edge -- Conclusion: digital author function. |
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In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The evolving digital cultures in the Global South vividly demonstrate that there are more ways than one to imagine what digital practice and global connection could look like. To explore these alternative developments, Chan investigates the diverse initiatives being undertaken to "network" the nation in contemporary Peru, from attempts to promote the intellectual property of indigenous artisans to the national distribution of digital education technologies to open technology activism in rural and urban zones. Drawing on ethnographic accounts from government planners, regional free-software advocates, traditional artisans, rural educators, |
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