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[Commlist] new book: Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion

Wed Sep 21 12:38:14 GMT 2022




NEW BOOK!


  Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion

Theoretical and Applied Perspective.

Edited by Panayiota Tsatsou

palgrave macmillan

After a lot of work and anticipation, this timely and original book is now out! Many thanks to all contributors https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94122-2 <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94122-2>

*Outline*

This book explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the book brings together theoretical and applied research evidence on three vulnerable population categories: ethnic minorities, older people and people with disabilities. Each section is accompanied by a critical commentary on the research insights presented, from third sector community and policy experts.

*Argument *

The book explores whether vulnerable populations face similar experiences and challenges in relation to their digital inclusion status, stressing the central presence of intersectionality, and arguing for the inclusion of the age, ethnicity/immigration status and disability aspects of one’s identity. At the same time, it argues for multi-directional action that tackles intersectional discrimination in the digital realm on behalf of more than one single population category or group.  Challenging popular discourse on the overcoming of digital inequalities in the West, this essential book contends that accounts of non-western contexts do not focus on the parameter of vulnerability or on particular population groups.

*Endorsements*

“This book is unique, a must read for those who want to get a broader perspective and insight into digital inequalities than is common in the academic literature on the field. The combination of critical, interdisciplinary theoretical and practitioner perspectives and the inclusion of data from beyond the usual empirical focus on the global north provided by authors from around the world, is an extremely valuable and very overdue contribution to our understanding what digital inclusion looks like and what considerate solutions might be to the lack of it” (Ellen J. Helsper, Professor of Digital Inequalities in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE”

“This is a well-edited, coherent and rich collection of research essays about vulnerability and resilience of people trying to reach social and digital inclusion in six continents of the world. The groups are people with disability and old age and ethnic minorities. They are compared to find the intersectionality of aspects in social and digital inequality among all of them. The focus is on inclusion and how to support this and not on exclusion (the digital divide).” (Jan van Dijk, Emeritus Professor of Communication Science at the University of Twente)

“Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion is impressive in both its systematic analysis of technological and social inequalities, as well as its wide-ranging perspectives and global populations of interest” (Dr. Meryl Alper, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University)

*Panayiota Tsatsou* is Associate Professor at the University of Leicester. Her research interests lie in the areas of digital inclusion and Internet studies. Panayiota has published widely on the role of vulnerable and ordinary people as digital media actors.


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