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Title: A multi-sited ethnography of the decolonization of mobile media among Guaraní
Author: Wagner, Sarah
Director: Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia  
Abstract: Indigenous rights movements in Latin America strive to overturn the colonial hegemonies that permeate most domains of contemporary life. Guaraní among other indigenous groups have advanced strategies to decolonize communication media services through local ownership. This dissertation contributes first evidence on what is at stake in the decolonization of mobile media services. While most indigenous media research concerns the activities of organizations and the nature of media contents, this dissertation draws attention to the politics surrounding interpersonal communication modes. The research adopts a critical, multi-sited approach that combines community-based collaboration with political economy analysis. Results call for a change in thinking to the techno-optimism inherent to digital inclusion speak and for further attention to inequities in civic influence on mediatization. Most significantly, this research forges connections between key factors that affect individual agency over mobile media services among those at the so-called digital margins.
Keywords: indigenous media
digital inclusion
decolonization of communication
political economy of mobile media
mobile application development
community-based collaborative research
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Issue Date: 28-Jan-2020
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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