Moving Beyond the WEIRD

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dc.alternateIdentifier9783658475857
dc.alternateIdentifier10.1007/978-3-658-47586-4
dc.collectionDFG - German Research Foundation
dc.creatorRüller, Sarah
dc.date2025-04-14T12:59:59Z
dc.date2025-04-14T12:59:59Z
dc.date2025
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T15:13:07Z
dc.descriptionIn this open-access book, Sarah Rüller offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and nuances of conducting Western digital research in non-Western contexts, focusing on a case study in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The research underscores the importance of addressing the challenges inherent in navigating this intercultural landscape, particularly as Western researchers immersed in ethnographic work. The studies highlight the multifaceted issues surrounding postcolonial frameworks, extractivism, technocapitalism, exploitation, and the evolving paradigms of development and sustainability, and underscores the urgent need for a more pluralistic, site-specific co-design approach. This approach is central to promoting inclusive and just digital futures, mitigating the impact of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) biases, and unraveling the complex interplay of local and rural contexts torn between authenticity and exploitation by information and communication technologies (ICTs). This research delves deeper into a critical analysis of the establishment of a MediaSpace and the different community perspectives on technology access, revealing tensions and contradictions that shape the discourse on development and self-determination.
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dc.identifierONIX_20250414_9783658475864_67
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100826
dc.identifierhttps://link.springer.com/978-3-658-47586-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/32029
dc.identifierdoi10.1007/978-3-658-47586-4
dc.imprintSpringer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionn/a
dc.pages218
dc.placepublicationWiesbaden
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.publisherSpringer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
dc.relationMedien der Kooperation – Media of Cooperation
dc.relationisFundedBy3358520f-7ab2-42ab-80ef-88a2dbe6a901
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dc.relationisbn9783658475857
dc.resourceTypebook
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source9783658475864.pdf
dc.subjectICT
dc.subjectMorocco
dc.subjectLiteracy
dc.subjectSocio-Informatics
dc.subjectAmazigh
dc.subjectGrounded Design
dc.subjectAppropriation
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT1 Media studies: internet, digital media and society
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
dc.titleMoving Beyond the WEIRD

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