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This chapter details the case of the online newspaper Voces, showing that while Voces wanted to be open to direct participation from marginalized voices, the limitations of the digital divide meant that it had to settle for writing on behalf of those marginalized voices, as participation was limited to those citizens with literacy and technological skills. Further, by using Facebook and the website as information tools rather than communication ones, Voces, while offering participation in technology for those with Internet access, failed to achieve participation through technology.
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Subjects’ names were changed to protect their privacy. The Voces director, Oscar, gave permission for his real name to be used.
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See Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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UCA is the Spanish abbreviation for the private José Simeón Cañas Central American University.
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Hi-5 was a San Francisco-based social networking site popular in Latin America until Facebook became dominant. In 2009, Hi-5 retooled its platform to focus on social gaming.
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The United Nations, in 2011, declared access to the Internet a human right.
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Harlow, S. (2017). Voces. In: Liberation Technology in El Salvador. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48039-8_5
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