Towards Digital Social Infrastructure? Digital Neighborly Connectedness as a Social Resource
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yann P M Rees (0000-0003-3205-0777, Hochschule Bielefeld), Sebastian Kurtenbach (0000-0002-6030-3906, FH Münster), Katrin Rosenberger (FH Münster), Armin Küchler (0000-0003-1961-7679, Hochschule Bielefeld) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v7i4.5773 |
| OpenAlex | W4308880929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 35 |
Social infrastructure is made up of various material as well as non-material goods, ranging from venues for leisure such as movie theaters to indispensable everyday commodities, like sidewalks and streets. This is true both for urban and rural areas. However, the increasing emergence of digital aspects of social infrastructure has seemed to go unnoticed to some extent, with research specifically focusing on these digital aspects of social infrastructure being scarce at best—even though digitalization is currently a major emerging meta-development worldwide. The goal of our contribution is therefore to investigate the digital sphere and integrate it into the concept of social infrastructure. Drawing on descriptive findings from a multi-sited, community-based survey of residents in four rural areas in Germany (N = 413) as well as from 40 qualitative interviews, we present an integrative and expanded conceptualization of what we term a tangible digital social infrastructure . To do so, we examine digital neighborly connectedness as a social resource during the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study. We argue that digital neighborly connectedness served as both an integral part of on-site social infrastructure and as a social resource, especially during pandemic times. We discuss our results in light of current research on social infrastructure, with a specific focus on the scope of what counts as social infrastructure, as well as current discourse on social infrastructure in rural areas
Business · Conceptualization · Political science · Public relations · Social connectedness · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Psychology · Smart Cities and Technologies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |