Whose Global Village?: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World

This critical reassessment of digital proliferation calls for a new approach to technology that includes marginalized, non-western communities.

In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, they are in fact commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technol...