Data colonialism, network decolonization and submarine cable infrastructures

a reflection situated by artistic practice

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2023.1.43590

Keywords:

submarine cables, media infrastructure, artistic research, Global South.

Abstract

Based in an artistic practice that proposed the exchange of videoletter among young students of schools neighboring submarine cable stations in Fortaleza (Brazil), Sangano (Angola) and Salgar (Colombia), the text presents definitions related with media infrastructure and the debate around what could be the decolonization of the digital network. The proposal is to collaborate with a situated understanding of the internet in the Global South, explaining the geographies and territories where there is a presence of its infrastructures, highlighting its contrasts and contradictions.

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Author Biography

Ruy Figueiredo, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói/RJ, Brasil.

PhD in Communication from the State University from Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), with support from a CAPES scholarship. He is currently carrying out post-doctoral research at Postgraduate Program in Contemporary Studies of Arts, from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), with support from a CNPq/FAPERJ scholarship.

 

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Published

2023-11-09

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Figueiredo, R. (2023). Data colonialism, network decolonization and submarine cable infrastructures: a reflection situated by artistic practice. Revista FAMECOS, 30(1), e43590. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2023.1.43590

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Vol. 30 No. 1 (2023): Single Volume

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Cyberculture

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