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100			_aChan, Anita Say
245			_aNetworking peripheries : _btechnological futures and the myth of digital universalism _cby Anita Say Chan
260			_aLondon : _bMIT Press, _c©2011
300			_axxvii, 258 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_tPart 1: Neoliberal networks at the periphery
505			_tPart 2: Hacking at the periphery
520			_aIn 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, and others, Chan demonstrates how such developments unsettle dominant conceptions of information classes and innovations zones. Government efforts to turn rural artisans into a new creative class progress alongside technology activists' efforts to promote indigenous rights through information tactics; plans pressing for the state wide adoption of open source--based technologies advance while the One Laptop Per Child initiative aims to network rural classrooms by distributing laptops. As these cases show, the digital cultures and network politics emerging on the periphery do more than replicate the technological future imagined as universal from the center.
650			_aInformation society
650			_aInformation technology
650			_aDigital divide
650			_aTechnological innovations -- Social aspects
650			_aSocial Conditions
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