Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion

This edited collection 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 collection 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. The collection 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.Chapter 'Enhancing Older Adults' Digital Inclusion Through Social Support: A Qualitative Interview Study. is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Offers an up-to-date examination of the role of digital inclusion in vulnerable people's social inclusion

Provides conceptually refreshingly and empirically rich chapters supported by specific case studies

Includes expert practitioner perspectives from those working to improve vulnerable people's welfare

Auteur

PanayiotaTsatsou 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.

Contenu
Chapter 1 - Editors' Introduction
Part 1: Vulnerable People's Digital Inclusion - Conceptual and Empirical Accounts
Chapter 2 - Digital resilience: research critique and policy implications (Koen Leurs, Assistant Professor at Utrecht)Chapter 3 - A Overview of Digital Inequalities and Digital Engagements (Laura Robinson, Associate Professor at Santa Clara)Chapter 4 - Multidimensional Digital Exclusion and demand-driven intervention models (Sora Park, Professor at Canberra)Chapter 5 - Perspectives from Community and Policy Experts (TBC)
Part 2: Ethnic Minorities' Digital Inclusion
Chapter 6 - Digital Inclusion: Young refugees and transnational dimensions of social work (Lisa-Marie Kreß, Researcher at Stuttgart; Nadia Kutscher, Lecturer at Cologne; Marie Peters)Chapter 7 - Social media use and social inclusion among Syrian newcomers in Belgium (Leen d'Haenens, Professor at KU Leuven; Roya Imani Giglou, Graduate Student at KU Leuven; Willem Joris, Researcher at KU Leuven)Chapter 8 - Stories of migration: Examining the digitally mediated emotional experiences of Venezuelan refugees in Brazil (Amanda Alencar, Assistant Prof at Erasmus; Julia Faria Carmago, PhD student at the Universidad de Brasilia)Chapter 9 - The importance of digital citizenship for older migrants in Australians and the need for systemic policy (Loretta Baldassar,Professor at University of Western Australia; Raelene Wilding, Associate Professor at LaTrobe; Lukasz Kryzyzowski, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Western Australia; Joanne Mihelcic, Research Fellow at Monash)Chapter 10 - Perspectives from Community and Policy Experts

Part 3: Older People's Digital Inclusion
Chapter 11 - Digital Inclusion in Later Life in the United Kingdom (Katie Brittain, Professor at Northumbria; Gemma Wilson, Lecturer at UCLAN)Chapter 12 - Digital Media Use and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of East York Older Adults in Canada (Anabel Quan-Haase, Professor at Western Ontario; Molly-Gloria Harper, Graduate Student at Western Ontario; Barry Wellman, Professor at Toronto)Chapter 13 - Managing Social Support for Digital Inclusion Among Older Adults in Finland (Sakari Taipale, Associate Professor at Jyväskylä)Chapter 14 - Perspectives from Community and Policy Experts
Part 4: Digital Inclusion of People with DisabilitiesChapter 15 - The Enabling Effect of the Internet Among People with Disabilities (Mariusz Duplaga, Associate Professor at Jagiellonian, Krakow)Chapter 16 - Perceived and Lived Experiences of Digital Inclusion in the Context of Persons Living with Spinal Cord Injury (Jolita Viluckiene, Associate Professor at Klaipeda University) Chapter 17 - New Cities, Old Prosthesis: Smart Cities, Smart Phones and Disability (Katie Ellis)Chapter 18 - Perspectives from Community and Policy ExpertsChapter 19 - Editors' Conclusions and Recommendations