Taking the router shopping
How low-income families experience, negotiate, and enact digital dis/connections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6443553 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Mannell (0000-0001-8901-7041, Deakin University, corresponding author), Estelle Boyle (0000-0002-0000-9131, RMIT University), Jenny Kennedy (0000-0001-9489-5471, RMIT University), Indigo Holcombe-James (0000-0002-0564-6340, ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Australia) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 4109-4126 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448241234941 |
| OpenAlex | W4392650938 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
Within digital media scholarship, there are significant bodies of literature investigating forced disconnection (‘digital exclusion’) and voluntary disconnection (‘digital disconnection’) but there is little research addressing entanglements between them. This article explores how bringing together these bodies of literature through an empirical study offers new pathways and considerations for both areas. In doing so, we draw on qualitative data about the forms of disconnection experienced, negotiated, and enacted by low-income families in regional Australia before and during their participation in a digital inclusion initiative that provided them with Internet connections and laptops. We argue that their experiences illustrate the complex interplay of voluntary and involuntary factors that shape socially situated practices of disconnection. We also identify further implications for inclusion and disconnection research, including the need to recognise that within digital inclusion initiatives, participants’ non-use of provided technologies does not necessarily indicate failure but may instead be a positive outcome
Digital Inclusion · Disconnection · Inclusion (mineral · Internet privacy · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Scholarship · Situated · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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The limits and boundaries of digital disconnection
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The politics and perils of dis/connection in the Global South
The Digital Divide Is a Human Rights Issue
Automating Inequality
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |