标题：Humanidades Digitales del Sur y GAFAM. Para una geopolítica del conocimiento digital | Humanidades digitais do sul e GAFAM. Para uma geopolítica do conhecimento digital | Digital Humanities of the South and GAFAM. For a Geopolitics of Digital Knowledge
其他标题：Digital Humanities of the South and GAFAM. For a Geopolitics of
Digital Knowledge.
出版社：Laboratório Interdisciplinar em Inofrmação e Conhecimento (LIINC)
摘要：Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple y Microsoft (GAFAM) representan el mayor imperio financiero del planeta y aprovechándose de la arquitectura abierta y global del world wide web han asumido el control de las tecnologías que dirigen nuestro consumo, marcando nuevos tiempos y modos en la producción y el acceso al conocimiento digital. Las Humanidades Digitales del Sur no pueden ignorar por más tiempo la existencia de este dispositivo y de sus efectos sobre la diversidad cultural y epistémica. Si las HD nacieron con el objetivo de realizar y, en algunos casos incluso de guiar la transformación digital de los saberes.
其他摘要：Google, Amazon,
Facebook, Apple e
Microsoft (GAFAM) today
not only represent the
world’s biggest financial
empire but exploiting the
open architecture of the
Web took control of the
technologies that guide
private consumption and
dictate times and methods
of the production and
access to digital
knowledge. Digital
Humanities cannot longer
ignore the existence of
this dispositif and its
effects on cultural and
epistemic diversity. If DH
were born for preserving
our cultural heritage and
possibly guiding the digital
transformation of
humanities and social
sciences, it is necessary to
know the geopolitics of
global communication
systems, the neo-colonial
ambitions of multinational
corporations or the pillage of digital data, the new
raw material provided by
emerging countries.
GAFAM plays a central role
in this scenario,
spearheading the
hegemony of the
Anglosphere which
threatens to make
invisible or annihilate
cultural diversity. Its
dominion is based on an
ecosystem of devices,
applications and media
that on one side allow to
create communities
gathered around
algorithms-driven
experiences, and on the
other penetrate each
space of people’s private
life – the real added value
of these network giants. In
this scenario, would it be
possible to build a
counter-narrative of the
“digital revolution”
designed by a
monocultural private
empire? However, the
margins of the Global
South are witnessing a
number of initiatives and
projects focused on the
reappropriation of digital
technology with the aim of
protecting and preserving
local territories, languages
and traditions. Biocultural
multipolarity seems
therefore the only
possible answer to
GAFAM’s global
pedagogy. Southern DH
need to articulate this
response in two urgent
steps: developing a critical
digital literacy and
revaluing the margins as a
source of innovation and
social change.
其他关键词：DH and Global
South; Geopolitics of the
Internet; Digital
Hegemonies; Digital
Colonialism; Cultural Diversity.
