What's the Difference Between Typewriters and Computers?

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In the book, you talk about how people who are unfamiliar with technologies can become more familiar with them. You also talked about how repair was an important way for some of these people to get more familiar with technology. Can you talk a little bit about those relationships? I guess yes. The first time that i saw this was with he keyboard. As you mention, they hated a quarte key board because he never made sense for them. So one day in a focus group, we decided to break the keyboard. And it was interesting to see them like breaking the keyboard, breaking the pieces apart and building there the keyboard that they would appreciate the most. It's all about in aging critically with

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 program at the University of Virginia. He’s also the author of Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil. Follow David on Twitter at @DavidNemer.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

Paris’ new book Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation is out on July 5! It’s currently on sale at Verso Books.
Ahead of hosting the World Cup, Brazil forced thousands of favela residents from their homes.
Grace Blakeley recent spoke to David Adler about Colombia’s election and the use of TikTok.
Dan Greene wrote The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope and Lindsay Ems wrote Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins.

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