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

调查拉丁美洲的农村社区如何合作，通过所谓的社区网络-“民有、民享的互联网“-自下而上地绕过基础设施和技术障碍访问互联网。“更具体地说，我想探讨农村社区如何利用他们的技术知识，地方本体和媒体文化赋予新的社会学意义和功能，新兴的互联网基础设施，使他们能够参与全球媒体经济。特别是，严格审查社区网络的案例研究在亚马逊地区，最大的农村和非洲大陆最少的连接区域，通过询问以下问题：如何在巴西亚马逊社区网络位于有关推出的信息和媒体基础设施的大科技？在这些社区网络中出现了哪些土著知识/本体？它们在设计、技术和媒体素养以及后殖民权力观念方面揭示了什么？

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?