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Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere Valnora Leister

Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere By Valnora Leister

Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere by Valnora Leister


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This book maps how Brazil and the network of Portuguese-speaking countries are using digital technologies in new ways to expand opportunities and influence the arts, creative industries, sports, learning, business, and cultural evolution for hundreds of millions of Portuguese-speaking people on five continents.

Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere Summary

Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere by Valnora Leister

This book maps how Brazil and the network of Portuguese-speaking countries-the Lusosphere-are using digital technologies in new ways to expand opportunities at all levels of society. From a diverse range of perspectives across the Portuguese-speaking world, contributors to this volume explore such questions as the capability of information technologies to encourage social inclusion in the face of economic inequality, the kinds of cultural values that may replace those of the scarcity-based industrial era, and the potential emergence of a virtual world order based on soft power, given the failures of hard power alternatives. This book explores how digital linkages between Brazil and physically-separated Portuguese-speaking communities are influencing the arts, creative industries, sports, learning, business, and cultural evolution for hundreds of millions of Portuguese-speaking people on five continents. At a time of escalating calls in Europe and North America to close borders and build walls, Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere charts alternatives that offer inspiration and practical paths toward a more inclusive world.

Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere Reviews

The digital era is connecting the world in extraordinary ways. While the internet has generated tensions and disruption, it is also facilitating political, social, cultural and economic ties spanning vast geographies. Valnora Leister's edited volume explores the relationships between new information technologies and the so-called Lusosphere. Despite their formidable impact on international affairs over the past seven centuries, there is little discussion about how the Portuguese-speaking community is navigating the twenty first century. Leister and her contributing authors help fill this knowledge gap, exploring the ways in which the net is enhancing the 'soft power' of Lusophone nations, including values associated with acceptance, diversity and tolerance. In the process, Leister offers a hopeful and compelling vision for a world based on principles and practices of inclusion rather than reactionary nationalism. -- Robert Muggah, Igarape Institute
In 2004 I suggested that in addition to the English-speaking world, the other great globe-spanning digital cultural-linguistic communities merited study as entities in and of themselves, and coined the parallel term Lusosphere for the Portuguese-speaking world, as one such. Now I am delighted to see Valnora Leister and her contributors take the lead in an excellent book doing exactly that. This is a readable, thought-provoking effort that is worthwhile reading for Lusophones, Lusophiles, or just anybody interested in the shape of our common future. -- James C. Bennett, author of The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century

About Valnora Leister

Valnora Leister teaches at James Madison University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Overview

1. Origins of the Lusosphere
Valnora Leister
2. The Portuguese Language in a Globalized World
Jose Gabriel Andrade
3. The Interplay of Sports and the Portuguese Language in the Digital World
Patrisia Ciancio
4. UNILAB: Connecting the Lusosphere through Higher Education
Elcimar Simao Martins, Elisangela Andre da Silva Costa, Jacqueline Cunha da Serra Freire, and Sinara Mota Neves de Almeida
5. A Distance Learning Partnership in the Lusosphere: Cape Verde's Experience
Florenco Mendes Varela
6. Brazil's Digital Tools for Social Inclusion: A Resource for the Lusosphere?
Valnora Leister
7. Brazil and a Virtual Lusosphere in Global Cultural Evolution
Mark C. Frazier
8. Will the Lusosphere Lead the Way in the 21st Century?
Valnora Leister

Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors

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NLS9781498555098
9781498555098
1498555098
Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere by Valnora Leister
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
2020-09-28
224
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