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Genealogy, Culture and Technomyth. Decolonizing Western Information Technologies, from Open Source to the Maker Movement

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dc.creatorBraybrooke, Kat
dc.creatorJordan, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-25T15:13:59Z
dc.date.available2018-09-25T15:13:59Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractWestern-derived maker movements and their associated fab labs and hackerspaces are being lauded by some as a global industrial revolution, responsible for groundbreaking digital “entanglements” that transform identities, practices and cultures at an unprecedented rate (Anderson 2014; Hills 2016). Assertions proliferate regarding the societal and entrepreneurial benefits of these “new” innovations, with positive impacts ascribed to everything, from poverty to connectivity. However, contradictory evidence has started to emerge, suggesting that a heterogeneous set of global cultural practices have been homogenized. This paper employs a materialist genealogical framework to deconstruct three dominant narratives about information technologies, which we call “technomyths” in the tradition of McGregor et al. After outlining the maker movement, its assumptions are examined through three lesser-cited examples: One Laptop per Child in Peru, jugaad in India and shanzhai copyleft in China. We then explore two preceding technomyths: Open Source and Web 2.0. In conclusion, we identify three key aspects as constitutive to all three technomyths: technological determinism of information technologies, neoliberal capitalism and its “ideal future” subjectivities and the absence and/or invisibility of the non-Western.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/1028
dc.identifier.doi10.14361/dcs-2017-0103
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2018/09/BraybrookeJordan_2017_DCS_MH_Technomyth.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3172
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectMaker Kulturde
dc.subjectOpen Sourcede
dc.subjectWeb 2.0de
dc.subjectMythosde
dc.subjectmaker cultureen
dc.subjectOpen Sourceen
dc.subjectmythen
dc.subject.ddcddc:003
dc.titleGenealogy, Culture and Technomyth. Decolonizing Western Information Technologies, from Open Source to the Maker Movementde
dc.typearticle
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationBraybrooke, Kat; Jordan, Tim (2017): Genealogy, Culture and Technomyth. Decolonizing Western Information Technologies, from Open Source to the Maker Movement. In: Digital Culture & Society 3 (1), S. 25–45. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/1028.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:31:18
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local.source.epage45
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage25
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