Digital margins: Social and digital exclusion of Gypsy-Travelers in the Netherlands. (June 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Digital margins: Social and digital exclusion of Gypsy-Travelers in the Netherlands. (June 2016)
- Main Title:
- Digital margins: Social and digital exclusion of Gypsy-Travelers in the Netherlands
- Authors:
- Salemink, Koen
- Other Names:
- Lin Weiqiang guest-editor.
Yeoh Brenda SA guest-editor. - Abstract:
- Research on digital inclusion increasingly focuses on vulnerable groups, with the prevailing idea that social exclusion leads to digital exclusion. The role of the socio-spatial context is often faded into the background due to user-centric (individual) approaches. This article explores how a vulnerable group, Gypsy-Travelers in the Netherlands, deals with digital developments within their socio-spatial context. Contrary to prevailing theories, the analysis shows that Gypsy-Travelers are digitally engaged, despite their social exclusion. An advantage of the Gypsy-Traveler culture is that extended families on the sites provide a large potential of proxy users for support. Many of the Gypsy-Travelers are digitally engaged, but they engage and participate on their own terms. Furthermore, the digital engagement of Gypsy-Travelers is not a panacea for their social exclusion. In fact, their problematic relation with the settled society is mirrored in online activities. This research shows that digitalization has added a new layer to the interaction between Gypsy-Travelers and settled society. It also demonstrates that more socially and spatially contextualized research approaches can add insights to the debate on social and digital exclusion.
- Is Part Of:
- Environment and planning. Volume 48:Number 6(2016)
- Journal:
- Environment and planning
- Issue:
- Volume 48:Number 6(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 48, Issue 6 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0048-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 1170
- Page End:
- 1187
- Publication Date:
- 2016-06
- Subjects:
- Gypsy-Travelers -- social exclusion -- digital exclusion -- digital engagement -- inequalities
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http://www.pion.co.uk/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0308518X16636639 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0308-518X
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