Alexander Smit
Biographic Data
| ID | 4448715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Smit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Smit |
| SIGNATURE | SMIT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4304-0187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exposing Civic Normativity
This study analyzes the Dutch Happiness Meter (HM) – a digital tool employed by the government to quantify citizens’ happiness – through the lens of critical data studies. We introduce the “persona-based walkthrough method” to explore the HM’s algorithmic underpinnings and its socio technical construction of happiness. By navigating diverse personas through the HM’s interface, we answer the following questions: RQ1: How does the Dutch Happiness M…
Understanding digital citizenship in everyday life
This study examines how disadvantaged, low-literate adults experience digital citizenship to scrutinize digital inclusion policies and promote a more inclusive, diverse, and comprehensive understanding of digital citizenship and inclusion. Therefore, we ask: (1) What do disadvantaged, low-literate Dutch citizens consider digital citizenship? (2) How is digital citizenship practiced in everyday life by disadvantaged, low-literate Dutch citizens? (…
The Regime of Self‐Optimization
This article introduces the regime of self‐optimization, a theoretical framework to understand how disadvantaged citizens are compelled to continually improve their digital skills and capacities to meet the demands of an increasingly digital welfare state. Consequently, we ask: How do low‐literate Dutch citizens experience the regime of self‐optimization in their everyday lives? Drawing on historical and discursive underpinnings of governmentalit…
Digital Literacies as Socially Situated Pedagogical Processes
Despite the increasing importance of digital literacies for citizens to be able to participate in society, there is little scholarly agreement over what digital literacies entail. This conceptual ambiguity hinders the translation of digital literacies into educational programs and policies that foster citizens’ digital literacies and inclusion. While various authors have attempted to define digital literacy separately and in relation to other con…
Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life
In this thematic issue of Media and Communication titled Practices of Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life, we bring together insights from around the world to offer a diverse set of perspectives on digital practices and digital literacies across the lifespan. Moreover, emphasizing the development of digital literacies as a situated social practice, this thematic issue provides insights into the social contexts through which people develop …
Bypassing digital literacy
This article asks what digital literacy tactics low-literate Dutch adults employ to bypass their low-literacy to be able to participate in digital society, and what the consequences are for their socio-digital exclusion and inclusion. It contributes to a better understanding of the impact of digitalization for low-literate citizens, and the linguistic and digital barriers encountered in everyday life. Drawing upon participant observations and sem…
Monitoring the burial environment of terrestrial wet archaeological sites in The Netherlands
Monitoring the burial environment of archaeological sites is necessary to assess the success of their preservation in situ. Also, monitoring the state of preservation of actual archaeological remains together with that of their burial environment will further our understanding of the degradation processes acting on archaeological remains in situ. These remains consist not only of objects made from wood, metal, stone, etc., but also of pollen, soi…
Bypassing digital literacy
This article asks what digital literacy tactics low-literate Dutch adults employ to bypass their low-literacy to be able to participate in digital society, and what the consequences are for their socio-digital exclusion and inclusion. It contributes to a better understanding of the impact of digitalization for low-literate citizens, and the linguistic and digital barriers encountered in everyday life. Drawing upon participant observations and sem…
Monitoring the burial environment of terrestrial wet archaeological sites in The Netherlands
Monitoring the burial environment of archaeological sites is necessary to assess the success of their preservation in situ. Also, monitoring the state of preservation of actual archaeological remains together with that of their burial environment will further our understanding of the degradation processes acting on archaeological remains in situ. These remains consist not only of objects made from wood, metal, stone, etc., but also of pollen, soi…
Digital Literacies as Socially Situated Pedagogical Processes
Despite the increasing importance of digital literacies for citizens to be able to participate in society, there is little scholarly agreement over what digital literacies entail. This conceptual ambiguity hinders the translation of digital literacies into educational programs and policies that foster citizens’ digital literacies and inclusion. While various authors have attempted to define digital literacy separately and in relation to other con…
Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life
In this thematic issue of Media and Communication titled Practices of Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life, we bring together insights from around the world to offer a diverse set of perspectives on digital practices and digital literacies across the lifespan. Moreover, emphasizing the development of digital literacies as a situated social practice, this thematic issue provides insights into the social contexts through which people develop …
Bypassing digital literacy
This article asks what digital literacy tactics low-literate Dutch adults employ to bypass their low-literacy to be able to participate in digital society, and what the consequences are for their socio-digital exclusion and inclusion. It contributes to a better understanding of the impact of digitalization for low-literate citizens, and the linguistic and digital barriers encountered in everyday life. Drawing upon participant observations and sem…
Exposing Civic Normativity
This study analyzes the Dutch Happiness Meter (HM) – a digital tool employed by the government to quantify citizens’ happiness – through the lens of critical data studies. We introduce the “persona-based walkthrough method” to explore the HM’s algorithmic underpinnings and its socio technical construction of happiness. By navigating diverse personas through the HM’s interface, we answer the following questions: RQ1: How does the Dutch Happiness M…
Understanding digital citizenship in everyday life
This study examines how disadvantaged, low-literate adults experience digital citizenship to scrutinize digital inclusion policies and promote a more inclusive, diverse, and comprehensive understanding of digital citizenship and inclusion. Therefore, we ask: (1) What do disadvantaged, low-literate Dutch citizens consider digital citizenship? (2) How is digital citizenship practiced in everyday life by disadvantaged, low-literate Dutch citizens? (…
The Regime of Self‐Optimization
This article introduces the regime of self‐optimization, a theoretical framework to understand how disadvantaged citizens are compelled to continually improve their digital skills and capacities to meet the demands of an increasingly digital welfare state. Consequently, we ask: How do low‐literate Dutch citizens experience the regime of self‐optimization in their everyday lives? Drawing on historical and discursive underpinnings of governmentalit…
Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (2 works) · Digital divide (2 works) · Digital Inclusion (2 works)