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绕过基础设施和技术障碍，通过所谓的社区网络自下而上地接入互联网——“互联网由人民使用，为人民服务”。更具体地说，我想探索农村社区如何利用他们的技术知识、本地本体和媒体文化，为新兴的互联网基础设施赋予新的社会学意义和功能，使他们能够参与全球媒体经济。特别是，通过询问以下问题，批判性地审视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地区，也是连接最少的地区：巴西亚马逊地区的社区网络如何与大型科技公司推出的信息和媒体基础设施相关联？与这些社区网络相关的本土知识/本体出现了什么？它们在设计、技术和媒体素养以及后殖民时期的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?