Dear AoIRers, I hope you are doing well. I'd like to take this opportunity to shamelessly plug my new book "Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil" (MIT Press, 2022). The book was published in Open Access and it is free to read and download: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5266/Technology-of-the-OppressedIn... In this book, I show how Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. I tell stories of how favela residents make do and care for their precarious physical infrastructure; how their uses of Selfies help them efficiently communicate with their intended audience and bypass the surveillance of drug traffickers and prejudice of members of the upper class; how institutional gender prejudice harmed the ability of women to play video games and have a constant presence online; how a Human Infrastructure of Fake News was assembled to promote the rise of the far-right government in Brazil, etc. "In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don't just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression—and even, at times, to flourish. Nemer uses a decolonial and intersectional framework called Mundane Technology as an analytical tool to understand how digital technologies can simultaneously be sites of oppression and tools in the fight for freedom. Building on the work of the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, he shows how the favela residents appropriate everyday technologies—technological artifacts (cell phones, Facebook), operations (repair), and spaces (Telecenters and Lan Houses)—and use them to alleviate the oppression in their everyday lives. He also addresses the relationship of misinformation to radicalization and the rise of the new far right. Contrary to the simplistic techno-optimistic belief that technology will save the poor, even with access to technology these marginalized people face numerous sources of oppression, including technological biases, racism, classism, sexism, and censorship. Yet the spirit, love, community, resilience, and resistance of favela residents make possible their pursuit of freedom." The book was also published in Portuguese and will soon be published in Spanish: "Tecnologia do Oprimido: Desigualdade e o mundano digital nas favelas do Brasil" (Milfontes, 2021) https://www.amazon.com.br/Tecnologia-Oprimido-Desigualdade-mundano-digital-e... Kinds regards, -- David Nemer, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Media Studies University of Virginia Faculty Associate Berkman Klein Center Harvard University http://dnemer.com<http://www.dnemer.com/> https://twitter.com/DavidNemer Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press, 2022) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technology-oppressed Tecnologia do Oprimido (Editora Milfontes, 2021) - https://editoramilfontes.com.br/loja/Tecnologia_do_oprimido Favela Digital: The other side of technology (GSA, 2013) - http://favela-digital.com<http://favela-digital.com/>