R-EST convida: Wendy Williems (LSE) "Revisiting recent debates on digital technology and colonialism

Описание: A conferência "History repeating?: revisiting recent debates on digital technology and colonialism" será ministrada pela profa. Wendy Williems, da London School of Economics (LSE) no dia 24 de maio, quarta, às 14h, pelo canal do PPGCOM/UFMG no YouTube.

Organizado pelo grupo de pesquisa R-EST - estudos redes sociotécnicas com apoio da Fapemig (edital Universal 2022), o evento (em inglês) será conduzido por Carlos d'Andréa (PPGCOM/UFMG) e por Abel Guerra (doutorando em Mídia e Comunicação pela LSE).

Profa. Dra. Wendy Willems é professora associada e vice-chefe do Departamento de Mídia e Comunicações da London School of Economics and Political Science. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem produção de conhecimento global e histórias intelectuais, públicos racializados e tecnologia digital e abordagens pós/decoloniais para mídia e comunicação.
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Resumo: In recent years, a growing body of literature has emerged which has invoked new concepts such as ‘digital colonialism’, ‘data colonialism’, ‘coloniality of data’, ‘tech colonialism’, ‘technocolonialism’, ‘platform imperialism’, ‘information imperialism’ and ‘Silicon Valley imperialism’ (Jin 2013; Kwet 2019; Madianou 2019; Couldry and Mejias 2019). This paper draws analogies between recent work on digital colonialism and imperialism with older debates on media and cultural imperialism. Rather than examining digital technology as colonialism or imperialism, this paper proposes a more nuanced and open-ended research agenda which centres the relation between digital technology and colonialism. Problematising the totalising and deterministic accounts of digital colonialism, it examines how digital technology intervenes by reproducing as well as disrupting coloniality. The paper illustrates the mutual shaping of digital technology and colonialism with two examples from Southern Africa: (1) socio-technical imaginaries which propose digital technology as a solution to the ongoing inequalities associated with the remnants of colonialism; and (2) digitally constituted publics which have emerged as crucial sites of resistance against the remnants of colonialism.