David Nemer: Podcast Interviews

David Nemer, PhD

davidnemer

Media Theorist, Anthropologist, Author, Social Scientist

www.dnemer.com

2 Interviews

David Nemer's Interviews

Paris Marx & David Nemer • 23 Jun 2022 • EN

Technology of the Oppressed w/ David Nemer

Paris Marx is joined by David Nemer to discuss how residents of Brazil’s favelas reshape technologies developed in the Global North to serve their needs, and how technology alone does not solve social oppression. David Nemer is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and in the Latin American Studies

Austin Clyde & David Nemer • 19 Apr 2022 • EN

David Nemer, "Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil" (MIT Press, 2022)

In Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (MIT Press, 2022), David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the st