Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 277 pp.
Contains 26 illustrations, index
Series: Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities
ISBN 978-3-031-28930-9 (ebook); 978-3-031-28929-3 (print)
"With a special focus on the impact of the COVID-19, the collection is based on the 2021 Digital Inclusion, Policy and Research Conference, with chapters from both academia and civic organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed citizens' relationship with digital technologies for the foreseeable future. Many people's main channels of communication were transferred to digital services, platforms, and apps. Everything 'went online': our families, friends, partners, health, work, news, politics, culture, arts and protesting. Yet access to digital technologies remained highly unequal. This brought digital inclusion policy and research to the fore, highlighting to policymakers and the public the 'hidden' challenges and impacts of digital exclusion and inequalities. The cutting-edge volume offers research findings and policy case studies that explore digital inclusion from the provision of basic access to digital, via education and digital literacy, and on to issues of gender and technology. Case studies are drawn from varied sources including the UK, Australia, South America, and Eastern Europe, providing a valuable resource in the pursuit of social equity and justice." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction / Simeon Yates and Elinor Carmi, 1
PART I: POLICY AND PLACE: POLICY INTERVENTIONS AT A NATIONAL SCALE
2 Dirt Tracks off the Superhighway: How COVID Widened the Digital Gap for Remote First Nations communities in Australia / Daniel Featherstone, 13
3 Policy Interventions to Address Digital Inequalities in Latin America in the Face of the Pandemic / Bernadette Califano and Martín Becerra, 39
4 Connecting Scotland: Delivering Digital Inclusion at Scale / Rory Brown, Aaron Slater, and Irene Warner-Mackintosh, 63
PART II: COVID-19: RESPONSES TO AND THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
5 Digital Inclusion and Learning at Home: Challenges for Low-Income Australian Families / Kim Osman, Amber Marshall, and Michael Dezuanni, 87
6 How to Make Affordability-Focused Digital Inclusion Interventions More Effective: Lessons from the Connected Students Program / Jenny Kennedy, Indigo Holcombe-James, Kate Mannell, and Estelle Boyle, 111
7 Digital Inclusion Through Distribution of iPads During the Covid19 Pandemic? A Participatory Action Research in a German Secondary School / Cigdem Bozdag, 129
8 Infocomics vs Infodemics: How Comics Utilise Health, Data and Media Literacies / Anna Feigenbaum, Julian McDougall, and Ozlem Demirkol Tonnesen, 147
PART III: DIGITAL LITERACY: CREATIVITY, CIVIC PARTICIPATION, AND CAPABILITIES
9 Creating Creativity for Future-Proofing Digital Engagement, an Evidence Based Approach / Josie Barnard, 177
10 Through Media and Digital Literacy Education Towards Civic Participation of Disadvantaged Youth / Lucie Romer, 201
11 Evaluating 'Meaningful Connectivity': Digital Literacy and Women in West Bengal, India / Rituparna Banerjee, Josef Trappel, and Leo Van Audenhove, 225
12 Developing and Delivering and Data Literacy / Simeon Yates and Elinor Carmi, 249
PART I: POLICY AND PLACE: POLICY INTERVENTIONS AT A NATIONAL SCALE
2 Dirt Tracks off the Superhighway: How COVID Widened the Digital Gap for Remote First Nations communities in Australia / Daniel Featherstone, 13
3 Policy Interventions to Address Digital Inequalities in Latin America in the Face of the Pandemic / Bernadette Califano and Martín Becerra, 39
4 Connecting Scotland: Delivering Digital Inclusion at Scale / Rory Brown, Aaron Slater, and Irene Warner-Mackintosh, 63
PART II: COVID-19: RESPONSES TO AND THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
5 Digital Inclusion and Learning at Home: Challenges for Low-Income Australian Families / Kim Osman, Amber Marshall, and Michael Dezuanni, 87
6 How to Make Affordability-Focused Digital Inclusion Interventions More Effective: Lessons from the Connected Students Program / Jenny Kennedy, Indigo Holcombe-James, Kate Mannell, and Estelle Boyle, 111
7 Digital Inclusion Through Distribution of iPads During the Covid19 Pandemic? A Participatory Action Research in a German Secondary School / Cigdem Bozdag, 129
8 Infocomics vs Infodemics: How Comics Utilise Health, Data and Media Literacies / Anna Feigenbaum, Julian McDougall, and Ozlem Demirkol Tonnesen, 147
PART III: DIGITAL LITERACY: CREATIVITY, CIVIC PARTICIPATION, AND CAPABILITIES
9 Creating Creativity for Future-Proofing Digital Engagement, an Evidence Based Approach / Josie Barnard, 177
10 Through Media and Digital Literacy Education Towards Civic Participation of Disadvantaged Youth / Lucie Romer, 201
11 Evaluating 'Meaningful Connectivity': Digital Literacy and Women in West Bengal, India / Rituparna Banerjee, Josef Trappel, and Leo Van Audenhove, 225
12 Developing and Delivering and Data Literacy / Simeon Yates and Elinor Carmi, 249
