http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/browse/26551? How gender impacts use and preference of digital technology How gender impacts use and preference of digital technology en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 18:28:36 EDT Girls and Technology http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/38525 A folksongs karaoke product has been created to increase usage of subtitled media to enhance literacy and technology use, particularly among girls in rural India. This entails generating and proliferating popular local folksongs with social and cultural themes of interest to girls, accompanied by the award-winning Same Language Subtitling (SLS) feature. In this paper, the prime goal is to discuss possible implications of this novel technology content on girls’ socialization, education, and activism. Based on initial findings from a pilot test of this product in schools, private and public in rural India, I propose that this product has the potential to raise literacy among girls through musical enculturation and entertainment in rural India. By linking folksongs to computers, I argue that this association can shape, transform and/or (re)configure spaces for/by girls in rural India through interaction with technology in ways meaningful to them. Thereby, I problematize the transposition of “western” perspectives of gender and technology onto the rural terrain as understood within a development discourse. A folksongs karaoke product has been created to increase usage of subtitled media to enhance literacy and technology use, particularly among girls in rural India. This entails generating and proliferating popular local folksongs with social and cultural themes of interest to girls, accompanied by the award-winning Same Language Subtitling (SLS) feature. In this paper, the prime goal is to discuss possible implications of this novel technology content on girls’ socialization, education, and activism. Based on initial findings from a pilot test of this product in schools, private and public in rural India, I propose that this product has the potential to raise literacy among girls through musical enculturation and entertainment in rural India. By linking folksongs to computers, I argue that this association can shape, transform and/or (re)configure spaces for/by girls in rural India through interaction with technology in ways meaningful to them. Thereby, I problematize the transposition of “western” perspectives of gender and technology onto the rural terrain as understood within a development discourse. Payal Arora Payal Arora Sat, 25 May 2013 20:06:00 -0400 technology, gender, literacy, karaoke, folksongs, rural India http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/38525 http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/browse/26551? http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/19722 Maria Brodine Maria Brodine Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500 anthropology, material culture, media, Internet, Blogs, Journalism, Movements, Katrina, blogosphere, activism, resistance, applied anthropology, visual anthropology, networks, actor network theory, natural disasters http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/19722 http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/browse/26551?