
Virtual Roundtable on “Decolonial Computing”
Author(s) -
Paula Chakravartty,
Mara Mills
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
catalyst
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2380-3312
DOI - 10.28968/cftt.v4i2.29588
Subject(s) - sociology , media studies , data science , computer science
Calls to wrest the history and anthropology of computing, information technology, and digital media away from eurocentric analyses have been raised in the fields of STS and media studies over the last decade. This roundtable revisits discussions that take us beyond the dominant developmentalist approaches to technology in the global South, weighing the gains that have been made to incorporate decolonial theory and practice.