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Policy Interventions to Address Digital Inequalities in Latin America in the Face of the Pandemic
The aim of this chapter is to analyse policy interventions to address digital inequalities in five different Latin American countries (Argentina,...
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The Digital Sha** of a City: A Biography of ‘Cyberabad’ in Three Acts
The growth of the city of Hyderabad–India’s “second electronic city”—over the past three decades has paralleled the vision and the aspirational...
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Indigenous People and Digital Misinformation in the Brazilian Amazon
‘Necropolitics’ was used to produce a misinformation bubble impacting the Amazon’s Indigenous people. Given that these communities are widely...
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A Typology of Digital Leaks as Journalistic Source Materials
Whistleblowers have provided journalists with first-hand information since the dawn of journalism, but leaks have taken new forms and trajectories,...
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Digital Divides and Policy Interventions in a Pandemic World: Issues of Social Inclusion in Argentina
This chapter examines the public actions and interventions needed to address the digital inequalities that emerged and became a central issue on the...
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Universal Design and Assistive Digital Technologies: Enhancing Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was established in 2006 with the primary mandate of promoting the participation,...
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Digital Transformation in Development Settings: Remote Volunteering and Digital Humanitarianism
This chapter analyses experiences of digital transformation in humanitarian and development settings in global South contexts affected by disasters...
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Indigenizing a Develo** Country’s Digitization Agenda: Re-visioning ICTs in Ghana
Globally countries have been very receptive to digitization. As a result, various policies have been developed in order to lead this trajectory,...
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Nurturing the Transformative Agency and Activism of Children Through Digital Technology
Digitalization has permeated and transformed all aspects of our everyday life, also that of the children of today. In studies on digitalization, it...
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The Changing Nature of Work in Digital Everyday Life
Throughout history, technology and innovation have reliably demonstrated their power to optimise human capability and efficiency. Robotics and...
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Gig Labour and the Future of Freelance Journalism in South Africa and Zimbabwe
This chapter calls into question the meaning and essence of journalism under rapidly digitising and financially strained contexts. Drawing on...
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Regenerating African Languages and Cultures Through Information Technology Strategies
Africa is multilingual and multicultural. However, Africa’s linguistic and cultural wealth faces possible extinction unless developments in...
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Human Rights Day: Grassroots Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in South Africa
The Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 has come to be observed through a range of memorialisation processes aimed at confronting the past. Alongside the...
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#DigitalMemorial(s): How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory
The severe restrictions on public life following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic affected Holocaust memorials and museums worldwide, especially...
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“No quarantine to workers’ rights”: Recontextualizing Labour Day Commemoration in the Semiotic Landscape of a Pandemic Demonstration
This chapter aims to explore the appropriation of protesters’ practices concerning the commemoration of Labour Day (May 1, 2020) in Athens, Greece,...
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“Le goût d’un jour de fête”? Commemorating the End of the Second World War on Twitter During the Lockdown: A Comparison Between France and Italy
In this chapter, we look at the commemorations of the end of the Second World War in France (May 8) and Italy (April 25) in 2020 when both countries...
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#Mémoriascovid19: Reimagining and Narrating Trauma in the Core of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil
Headquartered at the State University of Campinas, #MemóriasCovid19 Platform is a crowdsourcing digital archive built upon the contribution of...
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Epilogue: Did the Pandemic Change the Future of Memory?
This book has traced the unprecedented growth and intensification of mediated commemorative practices, through well-documented empirical evidence...
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Playing with the Eyes. A Media History of Eye Tracking
This chapter focusses on eye-controlled digital gaming (recording and analysis of eye movement) as Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)...