{"id":78,"date":"2025-10-02T03:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/digital-alter-natives\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:35:34","slug":"digital-alter-natives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/articles\/digital-alter-natives\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Alter Natives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"middle content\">\n<div class=\"column left\" id=\"columnleft\">\n<div class=\"block-0\">\n<section class=\"block themeicon Expert opinion\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"icon\">\n<h3>Theme<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/global-development-strategies\/\" title=\"Global Development Strategies\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"projectimage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/themes\/global-development-strategies\/88486-13-eng-gb\/global-development-strategies_big_icon_theme.png\" alt=\"Global Development Strategies\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/global-development-strategies\/\" title=\"Global Development Strategies\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlobal Development Strategies<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpert opinion<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<h4>Related themes:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"icons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/social-change\/\" title=\"Social Change\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/themes\/social-change\/88481-63-eng-gb\/social-change_tiny_icon.png\" alt=\"Social Change\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<section class=\"block article summary\">\n<div class=\"headline\">\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<article>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Review of the book set &#8216;Digital AlterNatives with a cause?&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"block article author\">\n<div class=\"headline\">\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-content\">\n<div class=\"about-author\">\n<div class=\"tleft\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/van-den-berg-maarten\/150843-2-eng-gb\/van-den-berg-maarten_small_author.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"tright\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-den-berg-maarten\/\">Maarten van den Berg<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMaarten van den Berg is senior editor of The Broker, an independent magazine on globalization and development.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-den-berg-maarten\/\">full profile<\/a>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"block article author\">\n<div class=\"headline\">\n<h3>Tags<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"weight_8\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/display\/articles\/6611\/\">social movements<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"weight_3\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/display\/articles\/7340\/\">global politics<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"weight_1\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">sociology<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"weight_4\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/display\/articles\/6298\/\">political theory<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"weight_5\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/display\/articles\/6396\/\">ict<\/a><br 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class=\"edit image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/articles\/digital-alter-natives\/168140-2-eng-gb\/digital-alter-natives_full_view.jpg\" alt=\"Postcard 'Digital Natives' designed by Jonathan Remulla\">\n\t<\/div>\n<article class=\"fader  Expert opinion\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Digital (Alter)Natives\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br 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2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/header>\n<div class=\"intro contents\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\u2018Digital (Alter)Natives with a cause?\u2019 is a collection of four books with essays published by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, and the Dutch NGO Hivos. The books come in a beautifully designed cassette and are accompanied by a funky yellow package in the shape of a floppy disk containing the booklet \u2018D:coding Digital Natives\u2019, a corresponding DVD, and a pack of postcards portraying the evolution of writing &#8211; in the sentence \u2018I love you\u2019, written with a goose feather in 1734, to the character set&nbsp; \u2018i&lt;3u\u2019 entered on a mobile device in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>#DigitalNatives<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">The publication is the outcome of a programme initiated by the two organizations to investigate the potentials for social change and political participation in emerging societies through the use of internet and communication technologies (ICTs). The programme is particularly interested in the strategic use of ICTs among young people, those who are born and have grown up with \u2018things digital\u2019 \u2013 hence, the \u2018digital natives\u2019, a term coined by Marc Prensky in 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">But in the preface of the collection and the introduction to the first book, entitled \u2018To Be\u2019, the editors Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen are quick to stress that by naming digital natives, they do not want to exclude any position whether defined by age, gender, class, language or location. Still, \u2018we continue with the name\u2019, they say, \u2018because we believe that replacing this name with another is only going to be an epistemic change which tries to disown the earlier legacies and baggage that the name carries\u2019.&nbsp; I am not quite sure what that means. I take it they just like the hashtag #DigitalNatives \u2013 and I can\u2019t blame them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Testimonies<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">So who are these digital natives or how have they become? The booklet \u2018D:coding Digital Natives\u2019 portrays some of them. For instance, there is Frank Odaongkara from Uganda. He says that already in primary school he had the feeling that computers would change his life. Now Facebook is his homepage, and he has 1000 ebooks on his laptop, of which he\u2019s read 350 already. Or there is Leandra Flor from the Philippines who says she became more dynamic and in touch with her surroundings because of the \u2018wonders of technology in communication\u2019. She has built her social life around it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">What emerges from these testimonies, what many of the digital natives share is the sense of empowerment. They feel empowered by ICTs to connect to others, to learn something, to engage with the world and build social lives. Contrary perhaps to the aspirations of the editors, I do find that the digital natives in emerging societies portrayed in the publication tend to come from relatively well-to-do families. The digital divide is still very real, when it comes to access to ICTs and their life-changing potentials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Personal &gt; political <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">That digital natives feel empowered by ICTs to build a social life does of course not necessarily entail that they bring about social change or pursue political goals. But one thing can lead to the other, even accidentally.&nbsp; Take the story of Manal Hassan, an Egyptian woman who found herself trapped in Saudi Arabia when her family went to live there. She started a blog to write about her problem and got in contact with other Egyptian bloggers and digital activists. Women rights organizations adopted her cause, a lawyer took up her case, and she made news in the mainstream media. She had become a political actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">There are more such stories in the publication. In the digital age, it seems, social change has gone viral. Digital natives can become political actors by sheer coincidence. I believe there is an important lesson to learn from that for sociologists and political scientists. We have to come to terms with the serendipity of collective action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Digital methodology<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">For social scientists, there is more to be learned from the publication. In the introduction to the essays brought together in the chapter \u2018To Think\u2019 the editors pose that the rise and spread of digital and online technologies elicit new methods of understanding and research. &nbsp;And they are quite right. In the essay \u2018Digital methods to study digital natives with a cause\u2019, Esther Weltevrede uses Twitter as a platform to study digital natives and their practices. And because the retweet is a practice adopted by digital natives to forward, or give voice to a message, she proposes that for the researcher the retweet becomes a way to quantify those messages that have \u2018pass-along value\u2019. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Mob rule 2.0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">As many of the authors are themselves digital natives and activists of sorts, most of them cannot hide their excitement about the opportunities that ICTs afford.&nbsp; But there is some room for skepticism too. Thus, essayist Yi Ping Zou rightly observes that \u2018the newly imagined communities that we call digital natives [\u2026] may not be all progressive, liberal and striving to make a change for the better\u2019. In her contribution she warns us for \u2018mob rule 2.0\u2019 as the very digital technologies that allow us \u2018to create processes of change for a just and equitable world\u2019 are also technologies that \u2018enable massively regressive and vigilante acts that exercise a mob-based notion of justice\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>That vision thing<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">And as is the case with any form of collective action, digitally mediated or not, there is the question of purpose. In an essay that compares the youth-led \u2018revolution\u2019 of 1968 and the Arab Spring of 2011, David Sasaki observes that both are essentially anti-establishment movements and that, so far, the latter has prioritized the removal of the current political class without offering a concrete vision of what ought to come next. As far as this author is concerned, the digital natives have yet to develop a vision of their own future \u2013 and the future of their governments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">I believe that we should not expect from today\u2019s youth what yesterday\u2019s young ones did not accomplish. Let us consider the digital natives and the technologies they employ for what they do, not for what they ought to be doing.&nbsp; And after reading some of the testimonies of digital natives in this publication, I cannot but conclude \u2013 as Eddie Avila does in the last book \u2013 that what brings them together is \u201ca vision that the everyday technologies in their lives can help them make changes in their immediate environments\u201d. Such is not a vision about politics writ large. It is about change at the personal level, the ability to connect and engage with others, and, from there, the possibility to act collectively \u2013 and give it a larger direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\t<i>&#8216;Digital (Alter)Natives with a cause?&#8217;, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen (eds), is available for download in four parts at the website of the Hivos Knowledge Programme<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"credit\">\n\t\t\tPhoto credit main picture:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPostcard &#8216;Digital Natives&#8217; designed by Jonathan Remulla\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- body --><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- footnotes --><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- footnotes -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"commentform content column wide left\">\n<div class=\"disqus_content\">\n\t\t<a name=\"comments\" id=\"comments\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"disqus_thread\"><\/div>\n<p>        <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n            \/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * *\/\n            var disqus_shortname = 'broker'; 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