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Ethnography: belonging to a period other than that being portrayed.

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We need to change the kind of internet that we

have now and this process has already started

Kavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and
critical theory. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine.
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Form
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Evidence
- Metaphor ("tubes")

Structure
- (The content part was chronological)
- Information is power, bust must technology be neutral?
- Mapping the internet
- The internet as a set of tubes: virtual and materials
communications
- The internet's geographic imaginaries
- This is a pipe: the internet as a traveling tube
- Other infrastructures
- Technology is people's labor
- This is not a pipe: alternative materialities the story abo
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The internet is colonised in the sense that what we know is put up by up with a stor
western men (which is not the bulk of the people using it).
Furthermore, a lot of racial, gender etc stereotypes are assumed/ ARGUMENT IS
written down about how different areas advance in their technology We need to c
(eg western labourers were muscular, but Asian ones were seen as now and this
weak and others were seen as lazy)
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Disparate: essentially different in kind; not able to be compared.

Extolled: praise enthusiastically.

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s with it
of the stories are complete that's why she was telling us about the
he stories (a bit much to go into the technical analysis of all of the
going into the content)
ng on with the level of infratructure

that she is concerned with is not necessarily just the narrative but
pictures (eg visual representation of the optic cables)

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- Picture of connections
- Juxtaposes it with the work by geographers: shows
that those maps are colonial and it centers those
countries in power (eg europe, america)
- That is all the care about ^^ so theres are continents
of darkness seen as not as advanced and all, you see
in those maps what you want to see
○ So those westerners will bring the "light" over
(privilege, ethereal story)
○ The stereotypes are so ingrained that people
don’t even think about it
- If we pay attn to materiality, will it solve it?
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Metanarratives: an overarching
account or interpretation of
Accrete: grow by accumulation or coalescence. events and circumstances that
provides a pattern or structure
for people’s beliefs and gives
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it interesting to see how colonial
reotypes can make it into things like
advancement of technology and
internet.
Accrete: grow by accumulation or coalescence. events and circumstances that
provides a pattern or structure
for people’s beliefs and gives
meaning to their experiences.
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"invisible system"
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physical structure
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Enthused: express eager enjoyment, interest, or approval regarding something.

Pneumatic: containing or operated by air or gas under pressure.

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Emasculated: made weaker or less effective.

eresting way of telling the story
- If this is not colonial then what is this
(white man going and posing with the
workers at the back actually doing the
work and living there)
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we need to be careful of the
equences … who owns these
es? (the MNS) but the rising
nomies have a stake in it and
gs are changing (eg how much