Digital Engagement: Voice and Participation in Development

Tacchi, Jo

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“…The term "digital divide" has recently fallen out of favor in the social sciences--with the phrases "digital inequality" or "digital inclusion" now considered more practical (Tacchi 2012). 11 However, the divisions created by a two-tier Internet would surely renew the usefulness of the term by exacerbating social inequality in Brazil.…”

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“…From 11. Tacchi (2012) argues that a major problem with the term "digital divide" is that it assumes that by closing the gap in digital access, digital technologies are beneficial to all citizens. Thus, the term merely references access to digital technology without any consideration for its effective use (see also, Warschauer 2003).…”

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“…While low-income residents from Rio's North and West Zones may not be able to afford mobile phone subscriptions, as Agatha suggested, they could still take advantage of the limited, free Internet offered via the zero-rating promotions of their prepaid mobile plans. 7 While many of Brazil's downtrodden access the Internet almost exclusively via smartphone (Nemer 2016), which provides residents of these communities the democratic right to speak and be heard (Tacchi 2012), zero-rating promotions have offered these same communities free, limited access to the messaging applications that many Brazilians view as vital to their everyday lives.…”

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Is Facebook the Internet? Ethnographic Perspectives on Open Internet Governance in Brazil

Omari¹

2020

Law Soc. Inq.

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This article explores the ideals of open Internet governance in Brazil. I examine Brazil’s Internet law, the Marco Civil da Internet (MCI), which promotes the right to Internet access, online privacy, and net neutrality. The MCI’s ideals of a free and open Internet are challenged by Internet companies, such as Facebook, which offer “zero-rating” promotions that provide limited, free mobile data to low-income subscribers. I juxtapose the ideals of openness embodied in the regulatory sphere of the MCI with those of Brazil’s cultura livre (free culture) movement to show the ascendance of open values in Brazilian governance and culture. Accordingly, I employ the rhetorical question, “Is Facebook the Internet?” to demonstrate the ways in which commitments to open Internet governance, expressed in both the cultural and regulatory realms, run counter to the more proprietary ideals of the transnational tech community.

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Is Facebook the Internet? Ethnographic Perspectives on Open Internet Governance in Brazil

Omari¹

2020

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“…Waisbord (2005) observes that, while the diffusion/modernisation paradigm is widely regarded as outdated, no single paradigm has replaced it. In fact, these early C4D paradigms still seem to inform practice and policy (Tacchi, 2013). Though it is far from the preferred method of affecting development initiatives, there remains a place for top-down, modernisation-style approaches.…”

Section: Media For Developmentmentioning

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Talking the talk: Navigating frameworks of development communication

Backhaus¹

2020

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Journalism in Melanesia faces many challenges. Journalists strive for independence and objectivity while carefully navigating the needs and demands of communities, fragile states, and increasingly repressive governments. Personal safety is a concern in some places and there seems to be no abate to the growing encroachments on press freedom. There are also more insidious pressures. The influence of the global aid industry means that Melanesian journalists may find themselves under pressure to conform to dominant narratives of development in order to appease donors and training providers. This can result in journalism that paints a misleading picture of the way things are, instead showing donors and international interests what they want to see. This article offers a critical review of the approaches to development communication that may impact on the ways in which Melanesian journalists are able to work within this pervasive development discourse.

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“…They also expressed their doubts regarding the effect that seemingly democratic laws like the MCI have in their communities. In Rio's favelas, such is the dilemma of the right to Internet access, which offers the opportunity to speak and be heard (Tacchi ), but comes with contradictory processes that delegitimize the democratic rights provided therein (Caldeira ; Caldeira and Holston ; Holston ).…”

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Digital Access amongst the Marginalized: Democracy and Internet Governance in Rio de Janeiro

Omari

2018

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This article examines how new modes of governance and policies intended to expand Internet access unfold in the marginalized communities of Rio de Janeiro. In April 2014, Brazil enacted the Marco Civil da Internet (Civil Rights Framework of the Internet; MCI), an “Internet Bill of Rights” that promotes collaborative, democratic digital governance and regards Internet access as a requisite for civil rights. Rio's favelas (informal, historically low‐income communities) are territories where many of the intended beneficiaries of the access policies live. However, drug gangs often control favela neighborhoods and censor the digital access of residents; this is just one example of how Internet access in disadvantaged communities is tied to a number of broader sociopolitical realities and risks. Because these risks index larger disjunctions in contemporary Brazilian democracy, I propose that violence and informal governance in urban favelas creates a corresponding disjunction in the MCI's pledge of Internet access as a civil right.

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Digital Engagement: Voice and Participation in Development

Cited by 20 publications

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Is Facebook the Internet? Ethnographic Perspectives on Open Internet Governance in Brazil

Is Facebook the Internet? Ethnographic Perspectives on Open Internet Governance in Brazil

Talking the talk: Navigating frameworks of development communication

Digital Access amongst the Marginalized: Democracy and Internet Governance in Rio de Janeiro

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