Seeing like a dataset from the global south

interactions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-78
Author(s):  
Nithya Sambasivan
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Underserved Communities ◽  
Marginalized Communities

This is a forum for perspectives on designing for marginalized communities worldwide. Articles will discuss design methods, theoretical/conceptual contributions, and participatory interventions with underserved communities. --- Nithya Sambasivan, Editor

Making digital financial services more trustworthy for women

interactions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
Savita Bailur ◽  
Hélène Smertnik
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Underserved Communities ◽  
Marginalized Communities

This is a forum for perspectives on designing for marginalized communities worldwide. Articles will discuss design methods, theoretical/conceptual contributions, and participatory interventions with underserved communities. --- Nithya Sambasivan, Editor

The social construction of media trust: An exploratory study in underserved communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Schmidt ◽  
Lisa Heyamoto ◽  
Todd Milbourn
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Folk Theory ◽  
Underserved Communities ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Important Research Topic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Trust ◽  
Key Dimensions

Trust in the news media has re-emerged as an important research topic but scholarship often focuses on the narrow question of credibility and overlooks underserved communities. This study explores how people in marginalized communities define trust in their own words. Based on data from focus groups, this article identifies key dimensions of trust and proposes a folk theory of trust in the news media: Trust depends on responsibility, integrity and inclusiveness.

scholarly journals Tailoring Content for Authenticity and Adoption: Community-Based Participatory Research and the Co-creation of Story-Based Health Communication for Underserved Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Elena Villar ◽  
Paige W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Underserved Communities ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Communication Content ◽  
Community Theater

This perspective presents concrete examples of how community-based participatory research can be used effectively to decolonize health communication through the co-creation of health communication content specifically tailored to minoritized and underserved communities. The authors describe how community members and researchers partnered to conduct community listening, observation and co-create stories to be used in fotonovelas (graphic stories), radio stories, serious games and community theater. Community members are experts on their experiences and can best translate those experiences into stories that ring true for target audiences from similar backgrounds. Truly participatory research grounded in community values can be slow and take unexpected turns, but it is critical to create health communication content that resonates with audiences and contributes to influencing attitudes and behaviors. When Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is used in true collaboration with the community, marginalized communities, which were historically exploited by community researchers, can become the architects of their own health outcomes.

H2O for All? Examining the Potential of Public-Public Partnerships in the Water Sector

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Boag
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Global South ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Water Service ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Water Provision ◽  
Public Partnerships

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector involve a private company carrying out the act of water provision while the state retains ownership of the service’s assets, an approach taken by various countries of the global South in the early 1990s. Recently, however, there has been a return to the public sector for water service in some areas in the form of public-public partnerships (PuPs) which create links across levels of government and between government and other public bodies. Interest in PuPs has been stimulated by an observed failure of adequate water service provision by PPPs (Bakker 2003; Hemson et al. 2006; Swyngedouw 2004). This presentation aims to first present a new, textured typology of the different types of PuPs employed in the global South. The PuP typology has been created by surveying academic, government, business, union and non-governmental organization literature. Second, the positive and negative aspects of each partnership configuration will be examined, particularly in terms of how effective each is at delivering water to marginalized communities. My analysis treats water as a “public” or “social” good, something that is essential to human health and well-being. The rationale behind this study is to isolate what types of PuPs would be beneficial to citizens in the global South and ensure that water is treated as a public good. 

People as infrastructure politics in global north cities: Chicago’s South Side

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110041
Author(s):  
David Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Rust Belt ◽  
The South ◽  
South Side ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Political Alliances ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
Global North

People as infrastructure politics, a fruitful new analytic in urban political studies, has mysteriously been minimally studied in global north cities and their most punished places, America’s rust belt environments. I chronicle a flourishing people as infrastructure politics in one American rust belt city setting, Chicago’s neglected South Side. Here hundreds of subalterns participate in this resistance politics to reverse what I focus on: a commodifying blues club. Subalterns extract life-giving stuff from this space as they toil in Chicago’s and the South Side’s low-wage economies and marginalized communities. I show that this group’s political acts and practices, guided by their ordinary space’s interwovenness with taut political alliances and alternative ways to see, prove more sly and proactive than we have recognized. This slyness, first, entails an active use of a “back-path politics” as actions confront less club practices than the discursive content of practices. This slyness, second, leads with what I term resistive fragments: momentary, political charged interventions that powerfully resound across the club. The results suggest that this distinctive resistance politics is alive in America’s rust belt cities, closely mirrors realities in global south cities, and is far more complex that we had previously known.

scholarly journals General Data Protection Regulation—A Global Standard? Privacy Futures, Digital Activism, and Surveillance Cultures in the Global South

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 717-725
Author(s):  
Payal Arora
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Global South ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Individual

This paper asks the question whether current data regulations designed to curb digital surveillance are enabling for Global South activists seeking to create systemic social change in today’s data-driven societies. This text proposes five measures to answer this question and devise a decolonial pathway to improve the human condition, namely: a) Recognize the long legacy of distrust of the law among activists; b) Channel our energies more on local governance and less on (trans)national regulation; c) Shift focus from the individual to the collective rights approach; d) Attend to motivations for publicity over privacy; e) Re-frame activism from grand movements to everyday creative insurgencies. This paper starts with the premise that laws and regulations have deep political interests often rooted in neocolonial ideologies and are not necessarily designed and executed for the protection of all citizens. Laws may evoke different meanings among the world’s marginalized communities, far from the sacrosanct position they hold among many in the West. This work argues for a decolonial approach—to go beyond the data-centric and individual consent framework to genuinely understand the complex relationship between surveillance, privacy, activism, and law at the peripheries in the Global South and to foster dignity for all.

Disinformation after Trump

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110406
Author(s):  
Yiping Xia
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Global South ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Media Literacy Education ◽  
Fact Checking

Disinformation research surged in the wake of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election of Donald J. Trump. This essay reviews three book-length contributions published in 2020 and 2021. In doing so, I try to identify key developments in the field of disinformation research, and to contemplate next steps that may be of specific interest to readers of this journal. First, researchers are increasingly moving beyond a narrow obsession with technology in explaining and addressing disinformation. Second, not all authors reviewed here are convinced of the efficacy of media literacy education and fact-checking. Finally, considering limitations of the books reviewed here, I highlight the need for studies on marginalized communities and the Global South, as well as the potential of an embodied approach that may benefit a number of current perspectives on disinformation.

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