Building Broadband from the Bottom-up: Community Wireless Networks in the Brazilian Amazon

自下而上构建宽带：巴西亚马逊地区的社区无线网络

• 批准号: 2603417
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2603417
• 关键词: Building; Broadband; Bottom; up; Community

Investigating how rural communities in Latin America cooperate to bypass infrastructure and technological hurdles in accessing the Internet from the bottom up through the so-called community networks-"the Internet by the people, for the people." More specifically, I want to explore how rural communities use their technological know-how, local ontologies, and media cultures to assign new sociological meanings and functions to the emerging Internet infrastructures that are enabling them to participate in the global media economy. In particular, to critically examine case studies of community networks in the Amazon region, the largest rural and least connected region of the continent, by inquiring the following: How are community networks in the Brazilian Amazon situated in relation to rollout of information and media infrastructures by the Big Tech? What indigenous pieces of knowledge/ontology emerge in relation to these community networks? What do they reveal in terms of design, technological and media literacies, as well as postcolonial notions of power?

调查拉丁美洲农村社区如何合作，通过所谓的社区网络，自下而上地进入互联网，绕过基础设施和技术障碍--“人民的互联网，人民的互联网”。更具体地说，我想探索农村社区如何利用他们的技术诀窍、地方本体论和媒体文化来赋予新兴的互联网基础设施新的社会学意义和功能，这些基础设施使他们能够参与全球媒体经济。特别是，通过询问以下问题，批判性地审查亚马逊地区社区网络的案例研究，亚马逊地区是非洲大陆最大的农村和连接最少的地区：巴西亚马逊地区的社区网络与大技术公司推出的信息和媒体基础设施有何关系？与这些社区网络相关的本土知识/本体论是什么？它们在设计、技术和媒体素养以及后殖民权力概念方面揭示了什么？