Seyram Avle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3433041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seyram Avle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seyram |
| FAMILY NAME | Avle |
| SIGNATURE | AVLE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6940-0449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Between Hogging and Passing the Mic; Or, the Unintended Consequences of Networked Radio in Ghana
This paper explores the relationship between networked radio, media participation, and accountability in Ghana. Specifically, we examine how networked radio, the hybrid media space that is the convergence of radio and social media practices, works as a means of democratic accountability through citizen participation in media. We do this through an analysis of how two English-speaking radio stations in Ghana act as intermediaries between citizens …
Hardware and data in the platform era
The increased access to smartphones in Africa and elsewhere in the global south has opened new markets and new areas for surveillance/platform capitalism/data colonialism to operate. This article attends to the socio-technical practices of Transsion, the Chinese maker of Africa’s top selling smartphones, and through these showcases how essential hardware are to the global data economy. Working from a mix of data, including translocal fieldwork in…
Tech labor
research-article Open Access Share on Tech labor: a new interactions forum Authors: Seyram Avle University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, AmherstView Profile , Sarah Fox Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 4July - August 2021 pp 24–26https://doi.org/10.1145/3466994Online:30 June 2021Publication History 0citation4,388DownloadsMetricsTotal Citatio…
A Feminist Geopolitics of Technology
This article proposes a feminist geopolitics of technology framework that analyzes the connections between global politics and techno-empires through the lens of feminist scholarship. This framework has three dimensions: (1) grounding in place, (2) attention to everyday surviving and thriving, and (3) community. We draw on two long-term, community-oriented ethnographic research engagements in Cambodia and Ghana to illustrate how this approach mig…
Scaling Techno-Optimistic Visions
Techno-optimism, or the enduring belief that technology use and production are promising for humanity, is bound up in past and ongoing ideals of modernity, progress, and “development.” As a particular form of hope and aspiration, techno-optimism is harnessed for nation-building and economic development projects that invest in the promise of scaling. This article demonstrates that this enduring techno-optimism requires various forms of entrepreneu…
Radio via mobile phones
This article argues that the material history of mobile phones as they took shape in Ghana reveals them to be essential parts of radio’s infrastructure; one that is social, informal, and transnational. Using the radio tuning feature on mobile phones as an emblematic device, this article unpacks the sociotechnical infrastructure underpinning radio’s continued dominance in Ghana, revealing the intersecting logics that help to sustain the media tech…
Whose Freedom? Whose Information
Information policymaking in the contemporary global environment is complex and can be a difficult process. The difficulty lies, partly, in the divergent priorities of the state and civil society organizations (CSOs) and their transnational allies that often push specific laws in the global south. This article uses an analysis of the discourse around Freedom of Information (FOI) policies in Ghana and Nigeria to show how such divergent priorities e…
Flux mondiaux, médias et démocraties en développement
Cet article examine la façon dont la mondialisation et les médias influent sur les démocraties en développement dans les pays du Sud. Il se focalise sur l’interaction entre des technologies en évolution, la réglementation et les entrepreneurs locaux disposant d’un savoir-faire international, et cerne leurs effets combinés sur l’écologie des médias. Sur la base d’une analyse historique et d’entretiens, l’article avance que, au Ghana, la libéralisa…
Global flows, media and developing democracies
This article presents a combination of factors as a framework for examining how globalization and media impact developing democracies in the Global South. In particular, it pays attention to the interplay of changing technologies, regulatory regimes and local entrepreneurs with global expertise (obtained primarily through education overseas) and their combined impact on the media ecology in such countries. Using a historical analysis of the trend…
A Feminist Geopolitics of Technology
This article proposes a feminist geopolitics of technology framework that analyzes the connections between global politics and techno-empires through the lens of feminist scholarship. This framework has three dimensions: (1) grounding in place, (2) attention to everyday surviving and thriving, and (3) community. We draw on two long-term, community-oriented ethnographic research engagements in Cambodia and Ghana to illustrate how this approach mig…
Radio via mobile phones
This article argues that the material history of mobile phones as they took shape in Ghana reveals them to be essential parts of radio’s infrastructure; one that is social, informal, and transnational. Using the radio tuning feature on mobile phones as an emblematic device, this article unpacks the sociotechnical infrastructure underpinning radio’s continued dominance in Ghana, revealing the intersecting logics that help to sustain the media tech…
Global flows, media and developing democracies
This article presents a combination of factors as a framework for examining how globalization and media impact developing democracies in the Global South. In particular, it pays attention to the interplay of changing technologies, regulatory regimes and local entrepreneurs with global expertise (obtained primarily through education overseas) and their combined impact on the media ecology in such countries. Using a historical analysis of the trend…
Hardware and data in the platform era
The increased access to smartphones in Africa and elsewhere in the global south has opened new markets and new areas for surveillance/platform capitalism/data colonialism to operate. This article attends to the socio-technical practices of Transsion, the Chinese maker of Africa’s top selling smartphones, and through these showcases how essential hardware are to the global data economy. Working from a mix of data, including translocal fieldwork in…
Whose Freedom? Whose Information
Information policymaking in the contemporary global environment is complex and can be a difficult process. The difficulty lies, partly, in the divergent priorities of the state and civil society organizations (CSOs) and their transnational allies that often push specific laws in the global south. This article uses an analysis of the discourse around Freedom of Information (FOI) policies in Ghana and Nigeria to show how such divergent priorities e…
Global flows, media and developing democracies
This article presents a combination of factors as a framework for examining how globalization and media impact developing democracies in the Global South. In particular, it pays attention to the interplay of changing technologies, regulatory regimes and local entrepreneurs with global expertise (obtained primarily through education overseas) and their combined impact on the media ecology in such countries. Using a historical analysis of the trend…
Flux mondiaux, médias et démocraties en développement
Cet article examine la façon dont la mondialisation et les médias influent sur les démocraties en développement dans les pays du Sud. Il se focalise sur l’interaction entre des technologies en évolution, la réglementation et les entrepreneurs locaux disposant d’un savoir-faire international, et cerne leurs effets combinés sur l’écologie des médias. Sur la base d’une analyse historique et d’entretiens, l’article avance que, au Ghana, la libéralisa…
Whose Freedom? Whose Information
Information policymaking in the contemporary global environment is complex and can be a difficult process. The difficulty lies, partly, in the divergent priorities of the state and civil society organizations (CSOs) and their transnational allies that often push specific laws in the global south. This article uses an analysis of the discourse around Freedom of Information (FOI) policies in Ghana and Nigeria to show how such divergent priorities e…
Scaling Techno-Optimistic Visions
Techno-optimism, or the enduring belief that technology use and production are promising for humanity, is bound up in past and ongoing ideals of modernity, progress, and “development.” As a particular form of hope and aspiration, techno-optimism is harnessed for nation-building and economic development projects that invest in the promise of scaling. This article demonstrates that this enduring techno-optimism requires various forms of entrepreneu…
Radio via mobile phones
This article argues that the material history of mobile phones as they took shape in Ghana reveals them to be essential parts of radio’s infrastructure; one that is social, informal, and transnational. Using the radio tuning feature on mobile phones as an emblematic device, this article unpacks the sociotechnical infrastructure underpinning radio’s continued dominance in Ghana, revealing the intersecting logics that help to sustain the media tech…
Tech labor
research-article Open Access Share on Tech labor: a new interactions forum Authors: Seyram Avle University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, AmherstView Profile , Sarah Fox Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 4July - August 2021 pp 24–26https://doi.org/10.1145/3466994Online:30 June 2021Publication History 0citation4,388DownloadsMetricsTotal Citatio…
A Feminist Geopolitics of Technology
This article proposes a feminist geopolitics of technology framework that analyzes the connections between global politics and techno-empires through the lens of feminist scholarship. This framework has three dimensions: (1) grounding in place, (2) attention to everyday surviving and thriving, and (3) community. We draw on two long-term, community-oriented ethnographic research engagements in Cambodia and Ghana to illustrate how this approach mig…
In Between Hogging and Passing the Mic; Or, the Unintended Consequences of Networked Radio in Ghana
This paper explores the relationship between networked radio, media participation, and accountability in Ghana. Specifically, we examine how networked radio, the hybrid media space that is the convergence of radio and social media practices, works as a means of democratic accountability through citizen participation in media. We do this through an analysis of how two English-speaking radio stations in Ghana act as intermediaries between citizens …
Hardware and data in the platform era
The increased access to smartphones in Africa and elsewhere in the global south has opened new markets and new areas for surveillance/platform capitalism/data colonialism to operate. This article attends to the socio-technical practices of Transsion, the Chinese maker of Africa’s top selling smartphones, and through these showcases how essential hardware are to the global data economy. Working from a mix of data, including translocal fieldwork in…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (4 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Elite (2 works)