The Museum of Today. Towards Bridging the Socio-cultural Gap in Brazil

Melgaço, Lorena; Baltazar, Ana Paula

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“…What OLPC failed to provide was the training (both of the users and the educators), resources for maintenance and technology suited to the contexts in which it was to be used. The OLPC project demonstrates that technology provision alone is not sufficient to overcome the socio-cultural divides that underpin and reinforce the lack of access to digital technologies (Mosberger et al 2003, Baltazar 2009Melgaço and Baltazar 2011).…”

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ICTs and Technical Agency: A Case Study of a Rural Brazilian Community

Melgaço¹,

Willis²

2015

Citizen’s Right to the Digital City

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This paper explores the role of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in rural, marginalised communities. We explore Feenberg's concept of technical agency in order to understand the ways in which technological capacity might contribute to community development. We discuss three conditions of technical agency as outlined by Feenberg; power, knowledge and appropriate occasion. We consider how this framework might enable an approach to understanding the role of ICTS in the particular social-spatial contexts in marginalised communities. In order to test Feenberg's approach we discuss a case study of a village in rural Brazil: Noiva do Cordeiro. The community is recognized regionally as a pioneer in the way that it has mobilized a range of ICTs for the benefit of the community. We will conclude by discussing how ICTs can reinforce existing or introduce technical agency in a Feenberg framework and how this might contribute to community development.

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confidence: 99%