Whose Global Village?, Ramesh Srinivasan
Whose Global Village?, Ramesh Srinivasan
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Whose Global Village?
Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World

Author: Ramesh Srinivasan

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2017

Synopsis

In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community as information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with the click of a mouse. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and 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 perspective of diverse cultures.

About Ramesh Srinivasan

Ramesh Srinivasan is the director of the Digital Cultures Lab and an associate professor in the information studies and design/media arts departments at UCLA. He is a regular speaker for TEDx Talks, and makes frequent media appearances on MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, The Young Turks, and Public Radio International. His writing has been widely published by Al Jazeera English, CNN, the Washington Post, Forbes, and the Huffington Post.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jan

A critical, yet constructive and forward-looking book which bridges ‘post’colonial theory, science and technology studies and design. A lot of recent books focused on bias, big data and surveillance. This all plays a role here, too, but it also discusses the connection of technological fixes, capita......more

Goodreads review by Clare

This is a scholarly look at providing tech and communications around the world, involving research from many projects. The author first tells us that in Tahrir Square in Cairo, he saw a t-shirt for sale bearing social media logos. He bought it and went around asking the people who had just rebelled......more

Goodreads review by Ben

Ramesh Srinivasan, Associate Professor at the Department of Information Studies & Design at UCLA and the Director of the UC-Wide Digital Cultures Lab, has just penned, under the imprint of New York University Press, an important new manuscript on the global shaping of technology and culture. Combini......more

Goodreads review by Faouzia

I would like to thank NetGalley, the Publisher and Author fot this copy. Whose Global Village? I usually don't read non-fiction unless i have to, but i was caught by the title. Having been living in an international community for the past 18 months, this kind of topics was always present for discussio......more

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