1. East-West Divide on the Web Different needs, different stories by Evgeny Morozov,September 27, 2007

2. Source: Valleywagl Are we talking past each other? Source: Valleywagl Source: Valleywagl 3.

• 1. DailyKos

• 2.BoingBoing

• 3. LiveJournal

• 4. Michelle Malkin

• 5. Porn

• 6. Sports

• green one-way links

• blue reciprocal links

• source: Discover Magazine

4. How receptive is the Internet to non-English speakers? 5. 6. 7. Whose story is more important? or 8. Pictures not words 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. The true history of Web2.0 16. But this cartoon means almost nothing to most users in the developing world... 17. Same tools; different causes vs 18. Chocolate shops around the world 19. Or land distribution in Bahrain? 20. 21. Mobile phones are aneven better example 22. Different needs drive different uses

Mobile Reporting (voices of africa)

Mobile Financing (mukuru.com)

Mobile Health (data transfer; connecting clinics)

Mobile Trade (connects buyers and sellers via SMS to price)

23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Ambivalence of Technology technology is not a thing in the ordinary sense of the term, but an "ambivalent" process of development suspended between different possibilities... technology is not a destiny but a scene of struggle. It is a social battlefield...[it's] a parliament of things on which civilizational alternatives are debated and decided Andrew Feenberg 36. Subversive rationalization Differences in the way social groups interpret and use technical objects are not merely intrinsic but make a difference in the nature of the objects themselves. What the object is for the groups that ultimately decide its fate determines what it becomes as it is redesigned and improved over time... Andrew Feenberg 37. 38. Whoever is capable of this 39. 40. is also capable of this... 41. and this... 42. 43. 44. Thank you! Questions?