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Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and the politics of design
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ISBN: 0262322498 9780262322492 9780262322508 0262322501 9780262525831 9780262027168 026202716X 0262525836 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England : The MIT Press,

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This volume explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies, encounters that counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption. The contributors include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, 'DIY cultures', and other non-mainstream models of technology production and consumption. The contributors - leading thinkers in science and technology studies, anthropology, and software design - pay special attention to the specific inflections that different cultures and communities give to the value of knowledge.


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The new media nation : Indigenous peoples and global communication
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ISBN: 9781845454203 1845454200 0857456067 9786612627071 184545782X 1282627074 0857454099 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries. Based on more than twenty years of research, observation, and work experience in Indigenous journalism, film, music, and visual art, this volume includes specialized studies of Inuit in the circumpolar north, and First Nations p

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