Internet and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Internet and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean is written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9839054376 (ISBN 10) and 9789839054378 (ISBN 13).

This book presents pioneering research that is designed to show, from a qualitative and ethnographic perspective, how new information and communication technologies, as applied to the school system and to local governance initiatives, merely reproduce traditional pedagogical approaches and the dominant forms by which power is exercised at the local level. The studies thus constitute points of departure for further thinking about the need to promote an Internet culture based on the social application of a "right to communication and culture" and an "Internet right," that will permit the establi.