TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking Public Spaces and Online Networks: A Case Study
of a Regional Neighbourhood
AU - Willis, K
AU - Aurigi, Alessandro
AU - Varley, null
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - This paper will explore the links between ICT
infrastructures and social communities at a regional scale.
We argue that there is a need to move beyond the
technologically deterministic rhetoric of the ‘digital city’
and to consider the subtle changes occurring in the ways
that people live their lives in everyday spaces as a result of
ICT changes. This paper will address how such ICT
infrastructures, and in particular broadband internet access,
become localized within a community; and the broader
impacts this may have on social inclusion and sense of
place within a neighbourhood setting. We introduce a
model for understanding these changes through looking at
the links between access to public spaces for ICT use and
levels of social inclusion in the context of a neighbourhood
setting. We contextualize the study of the interplay between
the invisible networks and material world of regional urban
and rural life through a case study of internet use in a
regional town in South-West UK.
AB - This paper will explore the links between ICT
infrastructures and social communities at a regional scale.
We argue that there is a need to move beyond the
technologically deterministic rhetoric of the ‘digital city’
and to consider the subtle changes occurring in the ways
that people live their lives in everyday spaces as a result of
ICT changes. This paper will address how such ICT
infrastructures, and in particular broadband internet access,
become localized within a community; and the broader
impacts this may have on social inclusion and sense of
place within a neighbourhood setting. We introduce a
model for understanding these changes through looking at
the links between access to public spaces for ICT use and
levels of social inclusion in the context of a neighbourhood
setting. We contextualize the study of the interplay between
the invisible networks and material world of regional urban
and rural life through a case study of internet use in a
regional town in South-West UK.
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/ada-research/article/1035/viewcontent/Willis_Linking_20Public_20Spaces_20and_20Online_20Networks.pdf
M3 - Conference proceedings published in a journal
JO - Communities and Technologies
JF - Communities and Technologies
T2 - Digital Cities 8: Communities and Technologies 2013
Y2 - 29 June 2013 through 3 July 2013
ER -