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Conclusions: Toward an Understanding of Participation in and through Technology

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This chapter offers a discussion of the findings and their theoretical and practical implications, conclusions, limitations of this project, and thoughts on how future research can advance the ideas raised in this volume. Here, I offer a liberation technology model, based off the four sites under study, that helps us better understand what factors influence alternative media’s use of liberating technologies.

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  • Social Medium
  • Internet Access
  • Digital Divide
  • Information Communication Technology
  • Citizen Participation

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    The actual Spanish is informar, formar, and transformar, worth noting for their common root, formar.

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Harlow, S. (2017). Conclusions: Toward an Understanding of Participation in and through Technology. In: Liberation Technology in El Salvador. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48039-8_8

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