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Implementing Low Cost Digital Libraries for Rural Communities by Re-functioning Obsolescent Television Sets: The Offline-pedia Project

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dc.creatorMinniti, Sergio
dc.creatorSalazar, Joshua
dc.creatorVega, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-24T14:00:20Z
dc.date.available2020-08-24T14:00:20Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-27
dc.description.abstractThe article addresses the issue of the digital divide in Ecuador and illustrates how artefacts from television material heritage might be transformed into digital libraries to provide marginalized communities with access to digital information. It describes an ongoing socio-technical project which aims at providing Ecuadorian rural communities with access to digital information through the re-functioning of analogue TV sets and other complementary technologies that will become obsolete due to Ecuador’s switch from an analogue to digital broadcasting signal. On one hand, the project is discussed with reference to the contemporary debate in the fields of Media and Television Studies on the obsolescence and renewal of technology; And on the other, it is discussed on the background of earlier projects focusing on the design of digital libraries to circulate information and improve digital literacy in rural contexts. Finally, the prototype created is discussed from a technical and conceptual point of view.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc169
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14770
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15751
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectrenewability of mediaen
dc.subjectEcuadoren
dc.subjectdigital divideen
dc.subjectcosmolocalismen
dc.subjectcritical technical practiceen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleImplementing Low Cost Digital Libraries for Rural Communities by Re-functioning Obsolescent Television Sets: The Offline-pedia Projecten
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:14:29
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc169
local.source.epage139
local.source.issue15
local.source.spage123
local.source.volume8

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