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This book examines the representation, global inclusion, and commodification of the subaltern through digital platforms for online microfinance, the discourses of gender empowerment that emerge through MPESA promotional material online, and the use of games for change in online philanthropy.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Digital Subalternity and Online Philanthropy
Section I:
1. Dotcom Entrepreneurs to Digital Philanthropists with Jeanette M. Dillon
2. NGOization and ITization Intersect Online
Section II:
Introduction to Section II
3. Staging the Subaltern Other and the Subaltern Self: Digital Labor and Digital Leisure in ICT4D with Dinah Tetteh and Anca Birzescu
4. Digital Materialities: Inclusion and Access with Dinah Tetteh and Anca Birzescu
5. Networked affect in Online Philanthropy with Jeanette Dillon and Anca Birzescu
6. The Gamification of Philanthropy 2.0 and Subaltern Masculinities with Erika Behrmann and Hannah Ackermans
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Radhika Gajjala is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Her previous books include Cyberculture and the Subaltern (Lexington, 2012) and Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women (Altamira, 2004). She has co-edited collections including Cyberfeminism 2.0 (Peter Lang 2012), Global Media Culture and Identity (Routledge 2011), South Asian Technospaces (Peter Lang 2008) and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice (Hampton Press2008).
She is also a member of the Fembot Collective and FemTechnet and is co-editor of ADA: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology.
Summary
This book examines the representation, global inclusion, and commodification of the subaltern through digital platforms for online microfinance, the discourses of gender empowerment that emerge through MPESA promotional material online, and the use of games for change in online philanthropy.
