Technology At The Margins

Author : Sailesh Chutani,Jessica Rothenberg Aalami,Akhtar Badshah
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470639979

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Technology at the Margins by Sailesh Chutani,Jessica Rothenberg Aalami,Akhtar Badshah Pdf

Remain competitive by offering more accessible, affordable, and relevant information technologies that meet mass-market needs Technology at the Margins demonstrates that by making IT more accessible, affordable, and relevant, new mass markets can be opened. Based on solid insights generated in key areas of health, education, finance and the environment, the book offers practical recommendations and insights from world leaders, innovators, practitioners and new users of emergent technologies. Offers recommendations on how companies can ensure their own competitiveness by offering more accessible, affordable, and relevant information technologies to support mass market needs Suggests practical recommendations and insights from world leaders, innovators, practitioners and new users of emergent technologies Challenges businesses to rethink their uses of existing technologies Technology at the Margins will be of interest to decision makers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors who are interested in opportunities offered by IT in meeting the needs of those at the base of the worlds economic pyramid.

Author : Bill Maurer,Smoki Musaraj,Ivan V. Small
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336546

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Money at the Margins by Bill Maurer,Smoki Musaraj,Ivan V. Small Pdf

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more—as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a potential solution to the issue of financial inclusion. How, if at all, do new forms of dematerialized money impact people’s everyday financial lives? In what way do technologies interact with financial repertoires and other socio-cultural institutions? How do these technologies of financial inclusion shape the global politics and geographies of difference and inequality? These questions are at the heart of Money at the Margins, a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

Author : John Traxler,Helen Crompton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429537165

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Critical Mobile Pedagogy by John Traxler,Helen Crompton Pdf

Critical Mobile Pedagogy is an exploration of mobile technologies for designing and delivering equitable and empowering education around the globe. Synthesizing a diverse range of projects and conceptual frameworks, this case-based collection addresses the ambitions, assumptions, and impacts of interventions in under-researched, often disadvantaged communities. The editors and authors provide a nuanced and culturally responsive approach to showcasing: indigenous, nomadic, refugee, rural, and other marginalized communities emerging pedagogies such as curation, open resources, massive open online courses (MOOCs), and self-directed learning contextual factors, including pedagogy, ethics, scaling, research methodology and culture, and consequences of innocuous or harmful implementation and deployment the nature of participation by global capital, multinationals, education systems, international agencies, national governments, and telecoms companies. Scholars, academics, policymakers, and program managers are increasingly using mobile technologies to support disadvantaged or disempowered communities in learning more effectively and appropriately. This book’s diverse research precedents will help these and other stakeholders meet the challenges and opportunities of our complex, increasingly connected world and work with greater cultural and ethical sensitivity at the intersection of education, research, and technology.

Author : Edward Wenk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312982751

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Margins for Survival by Edward Wenk Pdf

Author : Mark Graham
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262535892

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Digital Economies at Global Margins by Mark Graham Pdf

Investigations of what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy mean for people and places at the world's economic margins. Within the last decade, more than one billion people became new Internet users. Once, digital connectivity was confined to economically prosperous parts of the world; now Internet users make up a majority of the world's population. In this book, contributors from a range of disciplines and locations investigate the impact of increased digital connectivity on people and places at the world's economic margins. Does the advent of a digitalized economy mean that those in economic peripheries can transcend spatial, organizational, social, and political constraints—or do digital tools and techniques tend to reinforce existing inequalities? The contributors present a diverse set of case studies, reporting on digitalization in countries ranging from Chile to Kenya to the Philippines, and develop a broad range of theoretical positions. They consider, among other things, data-driven disintermediation, women's economic empowerment and gendered power relations, digital humanitarianism and philanthropic capitalism, the spread of innovation hubs, and two cases of the reversal of core and periphery in digital innovation. Contributors Niels Beerepoot, Ryan Burns, Jenna Burrell, Julie Yujie Chen, Peter Dannenberg, Uwe Deichmann, Jonathan Donner, Christopher Foster, Mark Graham, Nicolas Friederici, Hernan Galperin, Catrihel Greppi, Anita Gurumurthy, Isis Hjorth, Lilly Irani, Molly Jackman, Calestous Juma, Dorothea Kleine, Madlen Krone, Vili Lehdonvirta, Chris Locke, Silvia Masiero, Hannah McCarrick,Deepak K. Mishra, Bitange Ndemo, Jorien Oprins, Elisa Oreglia, Stefan Ouma, Robert Pepper, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Julian Stenmanns, Tim Unwin, Julia Verne, Timothy Waema

Author : Kate Eichhorn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262033961

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Adjusted Margin by Kate Eichhorn Pdf

How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by making it convenient and affordable for renegade publishers, zinesters, artists, punks, anarchists, queers, feminists, street activists, and others to publish their work and to get their messages out on the street. The xerographic copier adjusted the lived and imagined margins of society, Eichhorn argues, by supporting artistic and political expression and mobilizing subcultural movements. Eichhorn describes early efforts to use xerography to create art and the occasional scapegoating of urban copy shops and xerographic technologies following political panics, using the post-9/11 raid on a Toronto copy shop as her central example. She examines New York's downtown art and punk scenes of the 1970s to 1990s, arguing that xerography—including photocopied posters, mail art, and zines—changed what cities looked like and how we experienced them. And she looks at how a generation of activists and artists deployed the copy machine in AIDS and queer activism while simultaneously introducing the copy machine's gritty, DIY aesthetics into international art markets. Xerographic copy machines are now defunct. Office copiers are digital, and activists rely on social media more than photocopied posters. And yet, Eichhorn argues, even though we now live in a post-xerographic era, the grassroots aesthetics and political legacy of xerography persists.

Author : E. Wenk
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39076006192962

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Margins for Survival by E. Wenk Pdf

Author : Webster Mohriak,Al Danforth,Paul J. Post,G. C. Tari,Michal Nemčok,Sudipta T. Sinha
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781862393493

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Conjugate Divergent Margins by Webster Mohriak,Al Danforth,Paul J. Post,G. C. Tari,Michal Nemčok,Sudipta T. Sinha Pdf

The main focus of the book is the geological and geophysical interpretation of sedimentary basins along the South, Central and North Atlantic conjugate margins, but concepts derived from physical models, outcrop analogues and present-day margins are also discussed in some chapters. There is an encompassing description of several conjugate margins worldwide, based on recent geophysical and geological datasets. An overview of important aspects related to the geodynamic development and petroleum geology of Atlantic-type sedimentary basins is also included. Several chapters analyse genetic mechanisms and break-up processes associated with rift-phase structures and salt tectonics, providing a full description of conjugate margin basins based on deep seismic profiles and potential field methods.--

Author : Laurien Crump,Susanna Erlandsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429758461

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Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe by Laurien Crump,Susanna Erlandsson Pdf

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science.

Author : Ramesh Srinivasan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479856084

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Whose Global Village? by Ramesh Srinivasan Pdf

Technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected in an online community worldwide. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to reconsider "whose global village" we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to reimagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspectives of diverse cultures. Such collaboration can pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and working with new technology worldwide that embraces the realities of communities too often relegated to the margins

Author : Lindsay Ems
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780262369398

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Virtually Amish by Lindsay Ems Pdf

How the Amish have adopted certain digital tools in ways that allow them to work and live according to their own value system. The Amish are famous for their disconnection from the modern world and all its devices. But, as Lindsay Ems shows in Virtually Amish, Old Order Amish today are selectively engaging with digital technology. The Amish need digital tools to participate in the economy—websites for ecommerce, for example, and cell phones for communication on the road—but they have developed strategies for making limited use of these tools while still living and working according to the values of their community. The way they do this, Ems suggests, holds lessons for all of us about resisting the negative forces of what has been called “high-tech capitalism.” Ems shows how the Amish do not allow technology to drive their behavior; instead, they actively configure their sociotechnical world to align with their values and protect their community’s autonomy. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two Old Order Amish settlements in Indiana, Ems explores explicit rules and implicit norms as innovations for resisting negative impacts of digital technology. She describes the ingenious contraptions the Amish devise—including “the black-box phone,” a landline phone attached to a device that connects to a cellular network when plugged into a car’s cigarette lighter—and considers the value of human-centered approaches to communication. Non-Amish technology users would do well to take note of Amish methods of adopting digital technologies in ways that empower people and acknowledge their shared humanity.

Author : Daniela K Rosner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262542685

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Critical Fabulations by Daniela K Rosner Pdf

A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself. In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered "design" to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation--how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.

Author : Rukmini Pande
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609386184

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Squee from the Margins by Rukmini Pande Pdf

Rukmini Pande’s examination of race in fan studies is sure to make an immediate contribution to the growing field. Until now, virtually no sustained examination of race and racism in transnational fan cultures has taken place, a lack that is especially concerning given that current fan spaces have never been more vocal about debating issues of privilege and discrimination. Pande’s study challenges dominant ideas of who fans are and how these complex transnational and cultural spaces function, expanding the scope of the field significantly. Along with interviewing thirty-nine fans from nine different countries about their fan practices, she also positions media fandom as a postcolonial cyberspace, enabling scholars to take a more inclusive view of fan identity. With analysis that spans from historical to contemporary, Pande builds a case for the ways in which non-white fans have always been present in such spaces, though consistently ignored.

Author : David Howard Rose,Anne Meyer,Chuck Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015063672631

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The Universally Designed Classroom by David Howard Rose,Anne Meyer,Chuck Hitchcock Pdf

The inclusion of students with disabilities in the classroom is an crucial concern in education. The Universally Designed Classroom reveals how new technology, curricula, and trends are improving access to mainstream learning and closing achievement gaps.

Author : Scott Skinner-Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107181373

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Privacy at the Margins by Scott Skinner-Thompson Pdf

Privacy can function as an expressive, anti-subordination tool of resistance that is worthy of constitutional protection.