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This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping  digital media uses and practices.  The case studies presented here question many commonly held assumptions around global media ownership, sustainability, and access relevant to countries beyond Latin American contexts.   
            

Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America

1. Transforming Digital Media and Technology in Latin America.- Part I Digital Territories: Transnational and Local Hybrid Experiences/- 2. Radio Indígena and Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in Oxnard, California.- 3. Sounds of the Neighborhood: Innovation, Hybrid Urban Space, and Sound Trajectories.- 4. Practitioner Perspective. Digital Networks in Bolivia: Territory, Community Collaboration and the Wayna Tambo Diversity Network.- Part II Approaches to Decolonizing Knowledge and Communication.- 5. Open Knowledge, Decolonial, and Intercultural Approaches to Communication Technologies for Mobility: The Achuar Kara Solar Project.- 6. Open Access in Dispute in Latin America: Towards the construction of counter-hegemonic structures of knowledge.- 7. Narratives for the defense of the digital commons.- 8. Autonomous Infrastructures: Community Cellphone Networks in Oaxaca, Mexico.- Part III Digital Activism and Resistance.- 9. Favela Digital Activism: The Use of Social Media to Fight Oppression and Injustice in Brazil.- 10. Jiujitsu moves, radio bemba, and other transmedia practices: social movement strategies counter statist media power.- 11. Digital Activism and the Mapuche Nation in Chile.- 12. Practitioner Perspective. Feminist Cyberactivism in Theory and Practice.- Part IV Documenting, Representing, and Strengthening Indigenous Language and Culture.- 13. Re-presenting Indigenous in Ecuadorian Media: A NewsFrames Approach.- 14. Challenging Asymmetries of Power and Knowledge Through Learning Communities and Participatory Design in the Creation of Smart Grids in Wayúu Communities.- 15. Indigenous Journalism in Ecuador: An Alternative Worldview.- 16. Practitioner, Perspective. Digital Communication Strategies for Strengthening and Empowering Amazonian Peoples and Nationalities: Community Radio and the Quijos Nation.