Internet Decolonized

Henna Zamurd Butt is a scholar-artist and Assistant Professor of Communication & Culture at Columbia College Chicago. She is the founder of Techne Studio, a research space foregrounding feminist and decolonizing approaches to craft and technology. Her scholarship has addressed internet access, community networking, and internet management, combining ethnographic, participatory, and coalitional methods with curatorial and creative inquiry. Practicing with sound, ceramic and print, her creative work is characterized by a deep interest in material dialogue, gestural and ephemeral approaches to making.M.I. Franklin is Full Professor and Chair Media, Cultural Industries and Society at the University of Groningen. Her research explores the human rights and gender dimensions of online cultures of use and public policymaking from a postcolonial and decolonial perspective. Former Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and active as researcher and human rights onlineadvocate since the early 2000's, Franklin also served as co-Chair of the Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition at the UN Internet Governance Forum. Along with extensive scholarly publications and policy briefs in these domains, she also publishes on music, politics, and the arts.

• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Author Biographical Notes 1: Henna Zamurd Butt and M. I. Franklin: Introduction PART I 2: J. Emeka Nwankwo: A Former Slave's Watery Grave: Google's Equiano Submarine Cable and the Question of Decolonization 3: Carolina Aguerre: Decolonializing the Internet through Community Networks: A Metagovernance Analysis 4: Daniel Oppermann: Data Networks, Internet Governance, History, and the Global South 5: Adio-Adet Dinika and Dennis Redeker: Toward Digital Pan-Africanism?: A Nkrumahian Approach PART II 6: M. I. Franklin: Human Rights Futures: Decolonizing the Digital 7: Digital Grassroots: Engaging Youth in Internet Governance 8: Indigenous Friends Association: The Digital Buffalo 9: Claudia Pozo, Anasuya Sengupta, Maari Zwick-Maitreyi: Language Justice Online: Power, Process, Practice, Whose Knowledge? 10: Henna Zamurd Butt: Internet Futuring beyond Access 11: Caroline Wesson and J. P. Singh: Authoritarianism and Populism in the Global South: Limits to Decolonizing the Internet 12: Syed Mustafa Ali: Internet Decolonized: A Methodologically Dystopian Perspective 13: Wali Duniya Bishakha Datta: Near Futures: Phone 14: M. I. Franklin and Henna Zamurd Butt: Toward Sustenance: Summing Up Glossary References Index