The Social Shaping of the Brazilian Internet

Co-author of a chapter on Latin America: "Stuart Davis, Joe Straubhaar, Martha Fuentes-Batista, and Jeremiah Spence provide another Latin American case study, drawn from the contrasting case of Brazil. Davis et al. dissect the social shaping of the Brazilian Internet, arguing that here “ICT diffusion was largely driven by creative innovations in diffusion from below by NGOs who sought to create new forms of access to the Internet to fulfill demand by users”. However, as they point out “these efforts were heavily influenced by national policies regarding public access, liberalization of regulations governing the national telecommunications market, as well as attempts by private corporations vying for consumer access”. "