ISBN:
9781315455310
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (219 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Ragnedda, Massimo Theorizing Digital Divides
DDC:
303.4833
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Organization of the book -- References -- Section 1 Using classical social theories to understand digital divide -- Chapter 1 The sociology of Simmel and digital divides: Information, value, exchange, and sociation in the networked environment -- Introduction -- The sociology of information -- Simmel on secrecy and money -- Information as an object of value -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Social capital and the three levels of digital divide -- Introduction -- Social capital: a multidimensional and controversial concept -- Social capital and the three levels of digital divide -- Interrelationships between digital and social capital -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 3 Do data analysts fill the role of the psychoanalyst?: The contemporary digital divide and Freud's theory -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Attitudes towards data -- Two presuppositions of big data analysis -- Patients' resistance and their mental illness -- Two presuppositions of psychoanalysis and the difference between the two analyses -- The problems of the end of psychoanalysis -- Conclusions and future directions -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 The interpretive and ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a Weberian perspective -- Dividers in digital divide studies? -- Weber's interpretive framework and the ideal type -- Putting Weber to the test: Internet non-use, use, and the in-between -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 2 Associative and communicative perspectives -- Chapter 5 Disability and digital inequalities: Rethinking digital divides with disability theory -- Introduction -- Disability in digital divide and inequality theories -- Uses of disability theory for rethinking digital inequality
Abstract:
Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 "The language metaphor": An epistemological approach to the digital divide -- Introduction -- Language, ICT and different forms of capital -- Digitality divides -- Digitality as a hegemonic language -- Digital registers -- Digitality acquisition and learning -- The "Creolisation" hypothesis -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7 Theorizing digital divides through the lens of the social construction of technology and social shaping of technology -- Introduction -- The theory of the social construction of technology (SCOT) -- The theory of the social shaping of technology (SST) -- The perpetual conundrums in the US -- The race and ethnicity divide -- The urban-rural divide -- The disability divide -- Explicating the conundrum through the social construction of technology and social shaping of technology theories -- Implications of the SCOT and SST theories for understanding digital divides and directions for future research -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Critical infrastructures, critical geographies: Towards a spatial theory of the digital divide -- Introduction -- Geography, the Internet and the digital divide -- A Marxist-postcolonial analysis of the uneven geographic development of Internet infrastructures -- Fixed and digital Internet infrastructures -- Fixed infrastructure -- Digital infrastructure -- Summarizing a spatial theory of the digital divide -- References -- Chapter 9 A "recognitional perspective" on the twenty-first century's digital divide -- Introduction -- A framework for the twenty-first century digital divide -- Recognition in social sciences -- Axel Honneth's theory of recognition -- Interpreting the digital divide from a perspective of recognition -- Limitations and conclusion -- Note -- References -- Section 3 Critical and alternative perspectives
Abstract:
Chapter 10 Rethinking the information society: A decolonial and border gnosis of the digital divide in Africa and the Global South -- Introduction -- Beyond political economy of the divide -- The decolonial and border theory -- On language, culture, and the divide -- Border, hybridity, and the divide -- Conclusion: toward a pluriversal Internet -- References -- Chapter 11 Digital divide in Turkey as a non-western country -- Introduction -- The conceptual framework of Şerif Mardin -- İHL Sözlük vs Ekşi Sözlük -- Civil and political participation in Turkey and on the Internet -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 This question of the Other presence: Theorizing online representation and the voice of the digital subaltern -- Introduction -- Background -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 13 The digital divide and classifications: The inscription of citizens into the state -- Introduction -- Digital divide(s) and citizenship -- Civil registration in Denmark: an illustrative study -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14 Gendered cyberhate: A new digital divide? -- Introduction -- Digital divisions -- Gendered cyberhate -- Impact on targets -- Coercion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Afterword: The state of digital divide theory -- Introduction -- The nature of digital divide theory -- A classification of digital divide theories -- Contemporary digital divide theory at third levels of access -- The way forward -- References -- Index
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