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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Transforming Digital Media and Technology in Latin America

   • Cheryl Martens, Etsa Franklin Salvio Sharupi Tapuy, Cristina Venegas

   Pages 1-24

3. Digital Territories: Transnational and Local Hybrid Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Radio Indígena and Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in Oxnard, California

      • Carlos Jiménez

      Pages 27-52

   3. Sounds of the Neighborhood: Innovation, Hybrid Urban Space, and Sound Trajectories

      • Doris Elena Pinos Calderón, Cristina Venegas

      Pages 53-79

   4. Practitioner Perspective. Digital Networks in Bolivia: Territory, Community Collaboration, and the Wayna Tambo Diversity Network

      • Mario Rodríguez Ibáñez

      Pages 81-93

4. Approaches to Decolonizing Knowledge and Communication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Open Knowledge, Decolonial, and Intercultural Approaches to Communication Technologies for Mobility: The Achuar Kara Solar Project

      • David Vila-Viñas, Juan Manuel Crespo, Cheryl Martens

      Pages 97-123

   3. Open Access in Dispute in Latin America: Toward the Construction of Counter-Hegemonic Structures of Knowledge

      • Maximiliano Salatino

      Pages 125-148

   4. Narratives for the Defense of the Digital Commons

      • Santiago García Gago

      Pages 149-162

   5. Practitioner Perspective. Autonomous Infrastructures: Community Cell phone Networks in Oaxaca, Mexico

      • Loreto Alejandra Bravo Muñoz

      Pages 163-173

5. Digital Activism and Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Favela Digital Activism: The Use of Social Media to Fight Oppression and Injustice in Brazil

      • Andrea Medrado, Taynara Cabral, Renata Souza

      Pages 177-201

   3. Jiujitsu Moves, Radio Bemba, and Other Transmedia Practices: Social Movement Strategies Counter Statist Media Power

      • Diana Coryat

      Pages 203-219

   4. Digital Activism and the Mapuche Nation in Chile

      • Salvador Andres Millaleo Hernández

      Pages 221-243

   5. Practitioner Perspective. Feminist Cyberactivism in Theory and in Practice

      • Natalia Angulo Moncayo

      Pages 245-266

6. Documenting, Representing, and Strengthening Indigenous Language and Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267

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   2. Re-presenting Indigenous in Ecuadorian Media: A NewsFrames Approach

      • Belén Febres-Cordero, Iria Puyosa, Juan Diego Andrango Bolaños

      Pages 269-286

   3. Challenging Asymmetries of Power and Knowledge Through Learning Communities and Participatory Design in the Creation of Smart Grids in Wayúu Communities

      • Javier Andrés Jiménez Becerra, Mónica Bustamante Salamanca, Ángel Gutiérrez Pérez

      Pages 287-310

   4. Indigenous Journalism in Ecuador: An Alternative Worldview

      • María Belén Albornoz, Gema Tabares Merino

      Pages 311-334

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  digital media uses and practices.  The case studies presented here question many commonly held assumptions around global media ownership, sustainability, and access relevant to countries beyond Latin American contexts.   
            

• Latin American Media
• Community Media
• Indigenous Media
• Decolonial Media
• Digital Activism
• Digital Commons
• Digital Divide
• latin american politics

“In Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America, Martens, Venega and Sharupi Tapuy address a major gap in the literature — namely the community-based challenges to existing configurations of technology.  Foregrounding indigenous activism and networks across the Americas, this volume makes an unprecedented contribution to our understanding of the ongoing agency of the populations that preceded the colonial onslaught.  Activists and scholars in this book resoundingly address Luis Ramiro Beltrán’s still urgent question:  who are you neutral against?  Digital and legacy technologies are not neutral, and the contributors to this volume take one more step toward decolonizing so-called International Communications by decentering the Eurocentric bulk of research and inserting the voices and projects of the Mapuche, Achuar, and Mixteca in a variety of locations in Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and Chile.  This is a must read in Communications Scholarship.” (Angharad N. Valdivia, Research Professor, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)

• College of Social Sciences and the Humanities (COSISOH), Universidad de San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

  Cheryl Martens

• Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

  Cristina Venegas

• Universidad Politécnica Salesiana Quijos Nationality (NAOQUI) and Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, Quito, Ecuador

  Etsa Franklin Salvio Sharupi Tapuy

Cheryl Martens PhD is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Liberal Arts program at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Her research and publications concentrate on the sociology and political economy of communication, media policy, and digital activism in South America.

 Cristina Venegas PhD is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the politics, histories, and formations of global and transnational media, revolutionary media cultures, media historiography, and film festivals with an emphasis on Latin America.

 Etsa Franklin Salvio Sharupi Tapuy is an Amazonian leader of Quijos and Shuar heritage. He is currently the Communication Advisor for the Quijos Nationality (NAOQUI), and a digital journalist (lancero digital) in CONFENIAE's Amazonian community press. As a researcher and Quijos wankiri and Shuar juakmaru (sage leader), he has been a guest lecturer at international conferences in Europe and throughout the Americas, specializing in Quijos history and the anti-colonial hero and leader, Jumandi.  He is currently completing a degree in Anthropology at Universidad Politécnica Salesiana in Ecuador.  

              

           
   

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