Between incursions and appropriations: digital technologies and pluriversal modernities in the Global South

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcad028

Sreedhar Nemmani, Clemencia Rodriguez

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Abstract

Abstract Based on a recent body of scholarship that addresses the epistemologies of the South, our goal is to incite a shift in how we conceptualize technology adoption in the Global South. We interrogate the notion that the role of digital technologies in these regions follows a linear model of progress from traditional lifeways toward industrial modernity. Joining a recent shift toward decolonizing the study of the flow of digital technologies in the Global South, this article calls for a new approach that prioritizes specific historical, cultural, and epistemological contexts in the Global South and acknowledges the fragmentation left behind by colonization and divergent economic policies. We argue that communities appropriate digital communication technologies in complex ways and weave them into their existing ancestral epistemologies.

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在入侵和挪用之间:全球南方的数字技术和多元现代性

基于最近的一项研究，研究了发展中国家的认识论，我们的目标是激发我们如何在全球发展中国家概念化技术采用的转变。我们质疑数字技术在这些地区的作用遵循从传统生活方式向工业现代性发展的线性模型。加入最近对全球南方数字技术流动的非殖民化研究，本文呼吁采用一种新的方法，优先考虑全球南方特定的历史、文化和认识论背景，并承认殖民化和不同的经济政策留下的碎片。我们认为，社区以复杂的方式适应数字通信技术，并将其编织到他们现有的祖先认识论中。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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期刊介绍： CCC provides an international forum for critical research in communication, media, and cultural studies. We welcome high-quality research and analyses that place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC seeks to bring a diversity of critical approaches (political economy, feminist analysis, critical race theory, postcolonial critique, cultural studies, queer theory) to bear on the role of communication, media, and culture in power dynamics on a global scale. CCC is especially interested in critical scholarship that engages with emerging lines of inquiry across the humanities and social sciences. We seek to explore the place of mediated communication in current topics of theorization and cross-disciplinary research (including affect, branding, posthumanism, labor, temporality, ordinariness, and networked everyday life, to name just a few examples). In the coming years, we anticipate publishing special issues on these themes.