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Mirrored Spaces : Social Inequality in the Digital Age / by Jörg Scheffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheffer, Jörg.
- Series:
- Geographies of Media, 3005-0138
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human geography.
- Social structure.
- Equality.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Sociology.
- Digital humanities.
- Human Geography.
- Social Structure.
- Urban Sociology.
- Digital Humanities.
- Local Subjects:
- Human Geography.
- Social Structure.
- Urban Sociology.
- Sociology.
- Digital Humanities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalisation and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement. Contrary to the prevailing narratives of “digital empowerment” and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalisation massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective, Scheffer demonstrates how socially disadvantaged groups are faced with reproducing mechanisms as part of a new data economy. Surprisingly, the more intensively digital services are used, the more this happens. Building on Löw´s sociology of space and Bourdieu´s concept of habitus, this book shows how practices of social exclusion are transferred to the digital present in an innovative way. The image of “mirrored” spaces describes a new mechanism that explains social exclusion in the age of digitalization. This book is an essential resource for researchers and students interested in socio-economic inequalities, processes of digitalisation, and digital geographies.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Technological Competence and Social Change in a Spatial Perspective
- Stratification, Socialisation and Space
- Digital and Digitized Space as an Opportunity for Advancement
- Data-Based Utilisation Contexts
- Decontextualized data and socio-spatial differences
- Recursive Spaces
- Conclusion and Outlook.
- ISBN:
- 9783658427931
- 3658427930
- OCLC:
- 1411714065
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