Whose Global Village? Audiobook by Ramesh Srinivasan
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Title: Whose Global Village? Subtitle: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World Author: Ramesh Srinivasan Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 07-20-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary: In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village", where we all seem to be connected as an online community as information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with the click of a mouse. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This audiobook asks us to reconsider "whose global village" we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to reimagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspective of diverse cultures.

Members Reviews: Great read. Raised critical ethics questions about technology Great read. Raised critical ethics questions about technology, the idea of the "global village", and who exactly that idea serves. Could be a bit academic at times (spending a lot of time setting up background and defining terms before getting into examples), but thought it was very interesting. And I think I bought like 5 other books from its bibliography.

Mistitled An ethnographer from UCLA looks at how the third world uses western e-technology. That is the stated foundation of Whose Global Village. Srinivasan cites numerous examples where people use tech in ways other than intended. A childâs crank laptop becomes the sole light source in a family shack without electricity. A mobile phone becomes a flashlight to hunt crocodiles. Poor Indians call each other and hang up so the recipient will know to call back. Whatever the circumstances, people will find a way, a use and a workaround in their circumstances. But so has it always been. In an emergency, everything can become a hammer. A somewhat better point he makes is that Facebook did not organize and run the Arab Spring, that almost no one there had internet service, and the arrogance of the Facebooks and Twitters is worrying. Word among âthe last billionâ does spread like wildfire, but the oldfashioned way. He quickly shifts to describe various tech-assisted projects he has participated in around the world, and what he learned about himself and his own approach. The book is mostly about him, and the pitfalls for ethnographers. Like so many ethnography books, it fixates on the process of discovery the ethnographer underwent. Srinivasan has developed a sort of flexible approach to cultural data he calls fluid ontology. There is a great deal of space devoted to it, and it is the only new idea Srinivasan posits. It seems to be a genuine and valuable innovation to preserve the uniqueness of a society. Basically, it rethinks databases to reflect the societyâs own rankings, connections and valuations. One dramatic graphic shows how the Zuni see their society compared to how a museum populates a database, with a truly small area of overlap.