Early advocates of the internet’s democratizing power
This article covered research by Andrea Bellatore :
Early advocates of the internet’s democratizing power believed it would give people more of a voice about their own communities and countries. Instead, it appears to be reinforcing digital divides between wealthier and better connected countries and poorer, less developed countries. This matters, the researchers argue, because the ways that cities and countries are represented digitally increasingly shapes how people, including those that live there, understand and reproduce those places. “Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter,” the authors quote a Ghanaian proverb.
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