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The Third Digital Divide

A Weberian Approach to Digital Inequalities

By: Massimo Ragnedda

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The Third Digital Divide

A Weberian Approach to Digital Inequalities

By: Massimo Ragnedda

Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book engages with the question of whether the digital divide simply extends traditional forms of inequality, or whether it also includes new forms of social exclusion, or perhaps manifests counter-trends that alleviate traditional inequalities whilst constituting new modalities of inequality. With attention to the manner in which social stratification in the digital age is reproduced and transformed online, the author develops an account of stratification as it exists in the digital sphere, advancing the position that, just as in the social sphere, inequalities in the online world go beyond the economic elements of inequality. As such, study of the digital divide should focus not simply on class dynamics or economic matters, but cultural aspects - such as status or prestige - and political aspects - such as group affiliations. Demonstrating the enduring relevance of Weber’s distinctions with regard to social inequality, The Third Digital Divide: A Weberian approach to rethinking digital inequalities explores the ways in which online activities and digital skills vary according to crucial sociological dimensions, explaining these in concrete terms in relation to the dynamics of social class, social status and power. As such, it will be of interest to social scientists with interests in sociological theory, the sociology of science and technology, and inequality and the digital divide.

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Routledge

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1317064321

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Digital Capital

A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Digital Divide

By: Massimo Ragnedda,Maria Laura Ruiu

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Digital Capital

A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Digital Divide

By: Massimo Ragnedda,Maria Laura Ruiu

This work represents the first attempt to position digital capital as cumulative and transferable, independent from, and intertwined with the other five forms of capitals. The book aims to propose a theoretical toolkit and empirical model that can be used by policy makers to tackle social inequalities created by the digital exclusion of citizens.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1839095504

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Enhancing Digital Equity

Connecting the Digital Underclass

By: Massimo Ragnedda

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Enhancing Digital Equity

Connecting the Digital Underclass

By: Massimo Ragnedda

This book highlights how, in principle, digital technologies present an opportunity to reduce social disparities, tackle social exclusion, enhance social and civil rights, and promote equity. However, to achieve these goals, it is necessary to promote digital equity and connect the digital underclass. The book focuses on how the advent of technologies may become a barrier to social mobility and how, by concentrating resources and wealth in few hands, the digital revolution is giving rise to the digital oligarchy, further penalizing the digital underclass. Socially-disadvantaged people, living at the margins of digital society, are penalized both in terms of accessing-using-benefits (three levels of digital divide) but also in understanding-programming-treatment of new digital technologies (three levels of algorithms divide). The advent and implementation of tools that rely on algorithms to make decisions has further penalized specific social categories by normalizing inequalities in the name of efficiency and rationalization.

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Springer Nature

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3030490793

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Enhancing Digital Equity

Connecting the Digital Underclass

By: Massimo Ragnedda

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Connecting the Digital Underclass

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The Third Digital Divide

A Weberian Approach to Digital Inequalities

By: Massimo Ragnedda

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A Weberian Approach to Digital Inequalities

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Machine Habitus

Toward a Sociology of Algorithms

By: Massimo Airoldi

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Machine Habitus

Toward a Sociology of Algorithms

By: Massimo Airoldi

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitly contribute to the social construction of reality by drawing algorithmic distinctions between the visible and the invisible, the relevant and the irrelevant, the likely and the unlikely – on and beyond platforms. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this book develops an original sociology of algorithms as social agents, actively participating in social life. Through a wide range of examples, Massimo Airoldi shows how society shapes algorithmic code, and how this culture in the code guides the practical behaviour of the code in the culture, shaping society in turn. The ‘machine habitus’ is the generative mechanism at work throughout myriads of feedback loops linking humans with artificial social agents, in the context of digital infrastructures and pre-digital social structures. Machine Habitus will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, media and cultural studies, science and technology studies and information technology, and to anyone interested in the growing role of algorithms and AI in our social and cultural life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509543295

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Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication

Theory and Roots

By: Jan Servaes,Toks Oyedemi

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Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication

Theory and Roots

By: Jan Servaes,Toks Oyedemi

Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This book contains chapter contributions written by scholars from around the world who engage in country- and region-specific case studies of social inequalities in media and communication. The volume is a theoretical exploration of the classical, structuralist, culturalist, postmodernist, and postcolonial theoretical approaches to inequality and how these theoretical discourses provide critical understanding of social inequalities in relation to narratives shaped by media and communication experiences. The contributors provide class and gender analyses of media and culture, engage theoretical discourses of inequalities and capitalism in relation to communication technologies, and explore the cyclical relationship of theory and praxis in studying inequalities, media, and communication.

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Lexington Books

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1498523447

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Digital Capital

A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Digital Divide

By: Massimo Ragnedda,Maria Laura Ruiu

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A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Digital Divide

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Book's by Massimo Ragnedda

The Third Digital Divide

The Third Digital Divide

Digital Capital

Digital Capital

Enhancing Digital Equity

Enhancing Digital Equity

Enhancing Digital Equity

Enhancing Digital Equity

The Third Digital Divide

The Third Digital Divide

Machine Habitus

Machine Habitus

Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication

Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication

Digital Capital

Digital Capital

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