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Vulnerable people and digital inclusion : theoretical and applied perspectives / Panayiota Tsatsou, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--Data processing.
- Social service.
- Social integration--Data processing.
- Social integration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 346 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Editor's Introduction: Digital Inclusion, Vulnerability and Associated Complexities
- What Is This Book About?
- Background
- Ethnic Minorities
- Older People
- People with Disabilities
- Outline of the Book
- References
- Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Vulnerable People's Digital Inclusion
- Resilience and Digital Inclusion: The Digital Re-making of Vulnerability?
- Introduction
- From Deficit Toward Strength-Based Approaches
- Resilience for the Digital: Situatedness, Intersectionality, and Relationality
- Digital Resilience as Media Practice
- Conclusions
- Digital Inequality Research for Digital Publics: A Call for New Modalities in Policy-oriented Social Science
- Digital Public Social Science in the Time of COVID-19
- State of the Field: Approaches to Digital Inequalities Research
- The Case for New Forms of Digital Public Social Science
- The Case for Visualizations
- Case Study Number One: Visual Representation to Increase Understanding and Acceptance
- Case Study Number Two: The Use of Visual and Emotional Representation as Motivating Factors
- Lessons Learned and Applied
- Path Forward: DIRPSS
- Multidimensional Digital Exclusion and Its Relation to Social Exclusion
- Understanding Digital Inclusion as an Ecosystem of Individual Users
- The Offline Social Context
- Incorporating a Life Course Perspective: The Diversity of Uses and Non-uses
- Review of Conceptual and Empirical Literature on Digital Exclusion
- Interventions to Increase Access and Improve Access Quality
- Skills and Motivation: Individual Factors and Social Embeddedness
- Reinforcing or Overcoming the Existing Social Exclusion
- The Elements of Effective Interventions
- Discussion
- Part II: Ethnic Minorities' Digital Inclusion
- Understanding the Role of Social Media on the Road to Social Inclusion: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Belgium
- Refugees' Smartphone and Social Media Use
- Social Media and Their Role in Refugees' Social Inclusion
- Refugee Movement Models
- Method
- Recruitment Procedure and Participant Characteristics
- Data Collection Procedures and Data Analysis
- Ethical Considerations
- Results
- Push and Pull Factors Before Departing the Country of Origin and During the Journey
- Before Departure
- During the Journey
- After Arrival and During Settlement
- Socio-cultural Challenges in the Process of Resettlement
- Concluding Discussion
- Stories of Migration: Exploring the Links Between Emotions and Technologies in the Narratives of Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil
- Conceptualizing Emotion in Migration Research
- Emotions, Technologies and Forced Migration
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 3030941221
- 9783030941222
- Publisher Number:
- 99991721561
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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