Digital Peripheries

Lorena Melgaço

doi:10.5771/9781786609618

Summary

Despite an unprecedented presence of digital technologies in the everyday, a clear urban/non-urban divide in accessing and effectively using the internet remains. This divide is identifiable not only in the Global South—perceived as peripheral—but also in the Global North—regarded as advanced and the motor of technological development. Such a phenomenon suggests the emergence and endurance of socio-technological peripheries, places where socio-spatial inequalities are reinforced by unjust access to the internet.

To understand how such peripherality is manifested and challenged in rurban settings—where the rural and the urban mingle and clash—the first part of this book draws from dependency theory and the decolonial thinking to discuss the impacts of uneven production, access, and use of digital technology. The second part draws on Actor-Network Theory as a methodological frame to understand the recursive entwinement of the everyday and the use of the internet in three villages: two in Brazil and one in the UK. By bringing to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides, Digital Peripheries proposes an open theory of the connected rurban as a framework that addresses and accommodates the specificities of these communities in the twenty-first century.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78660-960-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78660-961-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 166
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
1. Socio-Technological Peripheralisation and Its Historical Process No access
2. The Internet as a SocioTechnical Ensemble: Technical Agency and Social CHANGE No access
3. How the Idea of Development Has Helped to Shape the Rurban No access
4. What Is the Connected Rurban? No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. The Centre-Periphery Seen from the Periphery: Dependency and Decolonial Thinking No access
  2. Global Centres, Local Peripheries: Technological Development and Spatial Differentiation No access
  3. Imperialist Expansion of Capitalism and the Global Digital Divide No access
  4. Urbanities in the Rural: Socio-Technological Peripheralisation in the Rurban No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Devising a Methodological Toolbox No access
  2. Approaching Different Communities Differently: Data Generation and Analysis No access
  3. Notes No access
1. 1. A Quick Account of the Development of Salto: Triviality throughout History No access
  2. Things and Places and Their Affordances and Hindrances No access
  3. Tracing Current Socio-Spatial Processes IN SALTO No access
  4. Marginal Access to Information and Communication Technologies, Marginal Access to the Internet No access
  5. Understanding Santo Antônio do Salto through Its Actor-Networks No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. The Historical Development of Pendeen No access
  2. Things and Places and Their Affordances and Hindrances No access
  3. Tracing Current Socio-Spatial Processes in PENDEEN No access
  4. The Centre of Pendeen: A Central Actor in Providing Internet to the VILLAGE No access
  5. Understanding the Importance of the Centre of Pendeen through Its Actor-Network No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Understanding the Historical Development of Noiva do Cordeiro No access
  2. 1. Noiva Do Cordeiro Actor-Networks No access
    2. Space and Its Collective Management No access
    3. Cultural Activities No access
    4. Social Tourism No access
  3. 1. The Actor-Networks of Everyday: Accessing Information and Communication Technologies No access
    2. The Internet and the Everyday No access
    3. Internet Interrupted: The Interruption of Internet Service in the Community 2014 No access
  4. 1. New Forms of Socio-Spatial Organisation No access
    2. Redefinition of (Sociotechnical) Networks No access
    3. Information, Knowledge and the Internet No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. Social Levels and Flattened Scales: The Socio-Spatial Processes of the Rurban No access
  2. Micropolitics and Social Change in the Rurban No access
  3. Contradictory or Chaotic? Changing Socio-Spatial Processes in the Rurban No access
  4. Production and Reproduction of and in the Rurban No access
  5. Democratisation of the Internet in the Rurban: A Way to Challenge Peripherality? No access
  6. Is There Possibility for an Insurgent Rurban? No access
  7. Notes No access
2. 1. Is It Possible to Overcome the Conflicts between Micropolitics and the Everyday? No access
  2. Challenges of the Present Research and a Call for Further Research No access
References No access Pages 143 - 158
Index No access Pages 159 - 164
About the Author No access Pages 165 - 166