Southern Digitalities: Reimagining Digital Studies from the Global South

Beyond entrenched notions of digital studies research

Western histories and ideas dominate studies of digital technologies despite the fact most of today’s digital users live outside the West. Clovis Bergère, Marwan M. Kraidy, and Marina R. Krikorian curate essays that explore new ways of understanding global digital life by centering the experiences, practices, and infrastructures of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

The contributors proceed from the idea that the plural term...