The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely inresponse to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In TheDigital Rights Movement, Hector Pos
How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don’t just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression―and even, at times, to flourish. Nemer uses a decolonial and intersectional framework called Mundane Technology as an analytical tool to understand how digital technologies can simultaneously be sites
A critical examination of efforts by social media companies -- including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram -- to rein in cyberbullying by young users.Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
Openness is not a given on the Internet. Technical standards--the underlyingarchitecture that enables interoperability among hardware and software from differentmanufacturers--increasingly control ind
The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group ofsoftware programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, aSwedish file-sharing search e
In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics
