Digital Colonialism: US Empire and the New Imperialism in the Global South

Kwet, Michael

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3232297

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“…Western providers design technology and systems that ensure their foothold in and continued dominance of the technology ecosystem. Kwet (2019) supports these arguments by noting that digital colonialism is reinforced by the implementation of infrastructure and systems that enable Western-based providers.…”

Section: Indigenous Cartography In Canada 57mentioning

confidence: 89%

To what extent can online mapping be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada

McGurk¹,

Caquard²

2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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In this paper, we describe and reflect upon our journey through Indigenous online mapping in Canada. This journey has been planned according to an academic goal: assessing the potential of online cartography for decolonial purposes. To reach this goal, we have followed methodological directions provided by Indigenous scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith to review 18 Indigenous web‐mapping sites across Canada. Supported by a series of ten interviews, this content analysis enabled us to sketch some of the contours of contemporary Indigenous cartography. On one hand, Indigenous communities largely control the data that are shared on these websites. They also partially control the way these data are represented through the mobilization of digital storytelling technologies that are better aligned with Indigenous ways of envisioning relationships to places than conventional maps. On the other hand, they do not have much control over the technological aspects of these projects, for which they remain heavily dependent on non‐Indigenous partners. Throughout this journey, we noticed that women's voices remained marginal in most of these mapping projects, but we also identified evidence supporting the idea that these voices are starting to play a vital role in the on‐going effort of decolonizing mapping processes.

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Section: Indigenous Cartography In Canada 57mentioning

confidence: 89%

To what extent can online mapping be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada

McGurk¹,

Caquard²

2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…This is due to the extraordinary rates for even the slowest broadband speeds in low income economies-often as much as 12 times more expensive per month than in the United States (Ward, 2011). Even more portentous is the effect of the lack of internet accessibility and control that Kwet (2019) refers to as "digital colonialism," which continues the Eurocentric colonial legacy as a "structural form of domination exercised through the centralized ownership and control of the three core pillars of the digital ecosystem: software, hardware, and network connectivity" (p. 4). In this respect, foreign governments and corporations build the infrastructure and digital technology that "allows them to accumulate profits from revenues derived from rent (in the form of intellectual property or access to infrastructure) and surveillance (in the form of Big Data)" (Kwet, 2019, p. 8).…”

Section: Anti-racist and Anti-colonial Decenteringmentioning

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Toward an Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Post-Internet Curriculum in Digital Art Education

Smith

2021

Post-Digital, Post-Internet Art and Education

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This chapter examines how reframing post-internet art through anti-racist and anti-colonial lenses in digital art curriculum can cultivate critical and transformative artist practices for students. Anti-racist and anti-colonial approaches offer frameworks for critically analyzing identity, ideology, and power relations toward decentering the art canon and qualitatively shifting curriculum toward critical dialogues and social action. Through a retrospection of the author’s own active and ongoing transformation as teacher, as well as through an analysis of artist Tabita Reziare’s post-internet practice, this article builds a pedagogical foundation for students to generate their own critical consciousness in learning and artmaking through a digital art curriculum.

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“…126 But the use of digital technology also presents serious issues surrounding the ownership and control of narratives through the creation, development, ownership and control of those technologies, which are often designed by westerners and thus can be westerncentric. 127 Those who create, control, own and use digital tools may become an inappropriate arbitrator of the narratives, events, crimes and histories of those using the technology to document crimes occurring against them. At its worst, this can create an extractive power dynamic concerning international criminal justice which could disempower or negate self-determination with regards to the implementation of local concepts of justice.…”

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Power and Privilege

Koenig¹,

Egan²

2021

Journal of International Criminal Justice

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Digital open source information — including the videos and photographs that people post to social media and other publicly accessible platforms — is increasingly valued as a critical source of evidence. While investigators have repeatedly established the value of open source information for researching a range of crimes, there is a subset of crimes that investigators have struggled to address with digital open sources — namely, sexual violence. In this article, we report on findings pulled from our interviews with international investigators and gender experts with regards to the perceived strengths and weaknesses of integrating digital open source information into international criminal investigations of sexual violence. More specifically, we elaborate on three insights into how open source investigations may be refined to better respect and protect the interests of survivors: by considering contextual issues related to ethics, power, and privilege, including the identity of the investigator and of the victims; by integrating a gender analysis and an intersectional analysis into online investigation planning; and by being thoughtful about consent, privacy, trauma and control — including who determines what happens with open source information and how such information is used in courts. We conclude with a discussion of what is needed to strengthen the efficacy and ethics of sexual violence investigations through the use of digital open sources.

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Digital Colonialism: US Empire and the New Imperialism in the Global South

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

To what extent can online mapping be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada

To what extent can online mapping be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada

Toward an Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Post-Internet Curriculum in Digital Art Education

Power and Privilege

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