TY - JOUR AU - Sordi, Paolo AU - Fiormonte, Domenico PY - 2019/06/30 TI - The Geopolitics of Digital Knowledge. From The Open Web to the GAFAM Empire. JF - DigitCult - Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures; Vol 4 No 1 (2019)DO - 10.4399/97888255263183 KW - N2 - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple e Microsoft (GAFAM) today not only represent the world’s biggest financial empire but exploiting the open architecture of the Web took control of the technologies that guide private consumption and dictate times and methods of the production and access to digital knowledge. GAFAM of course plays a central role in the present geopolitical scenario, spearheading the hegemony of the Anglosphere which threatens to make invisible or annihilate cultural and epistemic diversity. Its dominion is based on an ecosystem of devices, applications and media that on one side allow to create communities gathered around algorithms-driven experiences, and on the other penetrate each space of people’s private life – the real added value of these network giants. In this scenario, would it be possible to build a counter-narrative of the “digital revolution” designed by a monocultural private empire? Actually, the margins of the Global South are witnessing a number of initiatives and projects focused on the reappropriation of digital technology with the aim to protect and preserve local territories, languages and traditions. Biocultural multipolarity seems therefore the only possible answer to GAFAM’s global pedagogy. Southern margins need to articulate this response in two urgent steps: developing a critical digital literacy and revaluing the margins as a source of innovation and social change. UR - https://digitcult.lim.di.unimi.it/index.php/dc/article/view/110