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Inteligencia artificial centrada en los pueblos indígenas: Perspectivas desde América Latina y el Caribe

Luz Elena González Zepeda, Cristina Elena Martínez Pinto

Montevideo: UNESCO Office Montevideo and Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (2023), 53 pp.

"Hoy más que nunca advertimos la necesidad de una Inteligencia Artificial (IA) que respete los derechos humanos y las perspectivas de los pueblos indígenas, destacando su papel en la preservación de identidades y patrimonios culturales indígenas. Es fundamental democratizar la IA, incluyendo una ... more

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Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz et al.

Paris: UNESCO; Global Voices (2023), 193 pp.

"This toolkit has been co-designed in close partnership with both established and emerging networks of Indigenous digital practitioners, language advocates, and collaborators, within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. The toolkit promotes the foundation of l ... more

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Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape

Meital Kupfer, Jason Muyumba

Kampala: Pollicy; Internet Society Foundation (2022), 33 pp.

"This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape. This ties into ideas about digital colonialism (Kwett, 2022), wherein hegemonic, or dominant, languages are threatening and jeopardising the ability for local language speakers to expr ... more

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Democracia e representatividade: Novas formas de representação diante da transformação digital

Cosette Castro, André Barbosa Filho (org.)

São Paulo: Instituto Lula; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 65 pp.

"Entre os achados do trabalho quantiqualitativo que partiu de um universo de 229 participantes: lideranças e militantes da cidade, do campo, das florestas e das águas das diferentes regiões brasileiras. Destaca-se que 47% do público entrevistado tem dificuldade no uso da internet; pessoas negras ... more

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State of the Art of Indigenous Languages in Research: A Collection of Selected Research Papers

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 395 pp.

"In the context of the International Year and International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a Global Call for Research Papers was commissioned with the aim to show a diversity of scholarship in the field of Indigenous languages and related issues. The international peer-review team carried out a com ... more

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Redes compartidas de Tseltales y Zapotecas: Los caminos hacia un internet pluriversal

Fernanda R. Rosa

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication (2022), 24 pp.

"Este trabajo de investigación examina el surgimiento de las redes compartidas en comunidades tseltales y zapotecas de Chiapas y Oaxaca (México): la primera milla de señal de internet compartido que articulan la infraestructura de interconexión y los valores de convivencia para extender el inter ... more

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Tseltal and Zapoteco Shared Networks: The Paths Towards a Pluriversal Internet

Fernanda R. Rosa

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication (2022), 23 pp.

"Fernanda R. Rosa explores the Indigenous networks, principles, and practices of internet infrastructure building and sharing in Tseltal and Zapoteco sovereign territories in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico. More specifically, she uses the concept of shared networks to examine “the first mile signal-sh ... more

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Digital Skills Insights

Geneva: ITU (2021), xii, 142 pp.

"The eight articles in the publication can be broadly grouped into two main sets. The first set discusses the different types of digital skills required from a more academic perspective, in particular in the context of the pandemic and post-pandemic period, as countries accelerate their move towards ... more

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Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media

Bronwyn Carlson, Ryan Frazer

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 259 pp.

"Indigenous Digital Life offers a broad, wide-ranging account of how social media has become embedded in the lives of indigenous Australians. Centring on ten core themes-including identity, community, hate, desire and death-we seek to understand both the practice and broader politics of being Indige ... more

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Digital Inclusion of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: Remote Virtual Mechanism for Usability of Telecentres Amongst Indigenous Peoples

Poline Bala, Chon Eng Tan

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 87, issue 4, e12171 (2021), 14 pp.

"Turning to an ICT-based community development known as the Telecentre Programme amongst Orang Asli, an indigenous people groups in Peninsular Malaysia, this paper describes why a remote virtual management devise was invented to encounter challenges related to rugged terrain constraints, which would ... more

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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network

Roberto Jesús González

Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.

"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect ... more

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Dossier: Etnografía de los medios de comunicación indígenas y afroamericanos. Propuestas metodológicas

Revista Española de Antropología Americana, volume 50 (2020), pp. 211-306

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Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America

Cheryl Martens, Cristina Venegas, Etsa Franklin Salvio Sharupi Tapuy (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 358 pp.

"This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping digita ... more

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Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
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Peter Grant (ed.)

London: Minority Rights Group International (2020), 189 pp.

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Medios indígenas: Teorías y experiencias de la comunicación indígena en América Latina
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Gemma Orobitg (ed.)

Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2020), 419 pp.

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Hipertexto, multivocalidad y multimodalidad para una etnografía sobre los medios de comunicación: La web MEDIOS INDÍGENAS

Gemma Orobitg, Roger Canals

Revista Española de Antropología Americana, volume 50 (2020), pp. 215-227

"En este texto reflexionamos sobre la etnografía hipertextual y transmedia en términos metodológicos, éticos y teóricos. Nuestro análisis gira alrededor de la web MEDIOS INDÍGENAS que es parte de un proyecto de investigación colectivo y comparativo sobre los usos efectivos y los sentidos de ... more

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Indigenous Languages: Zero to Digital. A Guide to Bring Your Language Online

Translation Commons (2019), 24 pp.

"This document describes how to enable mobile and desktop software to support a written language. The recommended implementation allows native speakers to communicate online, share knowledge and documents, and to use software and devices that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. The intended aud ... more

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The Impact of Social Media in Conserving African Languages Amongst Youth in Limpopo Province

Edgar Julius Malatji

Doctoral Thesis University of Limpopo (2019), xviii, 286 pp.

"This study focuses on the impact of social media towards conserving African languages, particularly Sepedi, Tshivenda and Xitsonga. Social media are given attention to explore their impact in conserving African languages amongst youth. Youth is a suitable group to focus on as they are the future an ... d are thus expected to carry their African languages and pass them on to succeeding generations. This exercise should be done to ensure that African languages should not face extinction in the future. Generally, youth are constant users of social media platforms, hence it is cardinal to investigate their language-usage patterns on social media platforms. The majority of the African youth in South Africa use either one or more of the nine (9) indigenous African languages that are official, namely, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. Therefore, one would expect speakers of these indigenous African languages to effectively use them on social media, particularly, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp. African language heritage is undoubtedly a valuable resource, however, it needs state resources to develop it further and establish it as a core economic driver on various media platforms. The study employs exploratory and descriptive designs. These designs are appropriate for this study because it permits data to be collected through observations, focus group interviews and questionnaires. Focus group interviews, observations, and questionnaires were used to collect data. Focus group is a data-collection tool for understanding people’s behaviour and attitudes. The researcher moderated three focus groups. One hundred (100) questionnaires were distributed to the participants in this study. These tools are apt for the data-collection process in this study because they assist to discover factors that influence opinions, attitudes, and behaviours. Social media have great potential to conserve the African languages but the speakers of these languages should play a cardinal role in this process. Majority of the youth do not prefer to use the African languages on social media. Conversations on both Facebook and Twitter are dominated by English as youth prefer it ahead of Sepedi, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. In contrast, youth prefer to use the African languages on WhatsApp because they know their contacts. However, code-switching is used a lot by youth on social media. Despite the fact that Sepedi, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga are not mostly used on Facebook and Twitter they remain relevant and useful amongst their speakers on a daily basis. Nevertheless, there is a need to develop the African languages based social media sites to stimulate their usage on these platforms. Additionally, these languages should be developed to fit the needs of social media." (Abstract) more

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Video Games and the Global South

Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ed.)

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University; ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.

"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi ... more

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Techio comunitario: Caminos hacia un programa de formación en comunicación indígena

Erick Huerta Velázquez, Carlos F. Baca Feldman

Revista NuestrAmérica, volume 6, issue 12 (2018), pp. 22-35

"A partir de la experiencia de investigación participativa y la construcción de un programa de formación de técnicos comunitarios en México, en este texto se problematizan las características, retos y posibilidades de la comunicación indígena. La invitación que hacemos es a reflexionar sobr ... more

Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages Key Guidance Inspiring Practice

Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology Top Insights

Medios indígenas: Teorías y experiencias de la comunicación indígena en América Latina Top Insights

Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages
Key Guidance

Inspiring Practice

Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
Top Insights

Medios indígenas: Teorías y experiencias de la comunicación indígena en América Latina
Top Insights