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Digital Peripheries

Internet and Socio-spatial Practices in the Rurban

By: Lorena Melgaco

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Hardcover | 16 August 2022

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Despite the unprecedented incorporation of information and communications tools (ICTs) by
marginalized communities worldwide, there is still a clear urban/non-urban access (and effective use) gap in ICT access across the world.

This gap turns into a crucial infrastructure need as attention is turned to pressing issues faced by cities. The internet access gap is identifiable not only in the Global Southâ"perceived as peripheralâ"but also in the Global Northâ"regarded as advanced and the motor of technological development. This suggests the emergence and endurance of peripheries based on the level of techno-social development. Locally, this process accords with existing socio-spatial practices and with the ways ICTs are being introduced in the everyday.

This book explores the recursive interaction between socio-spatial practices and the late introduction of the internet in three marginalized rurban communities in Brazil and in the UK. It brings to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides to propose an open theory of the connected rurban as a framework that addresses and accommodates the specificities of these communities in the first two decades of the twentieth-first century.

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Drawing upon rich research on communities in Brazil and the UK, Melga?o illuminates the cultural and technological capacities of these peripheral communities to challenge techno-social marginalization. In these times of the dystopian impacts of global technological practices on local communities, this volume presents a refreshing and valuable lens to reflect on whether the internet can still foster a community model that enables social transformation.

In Digital Peripheries, Lorena Melga?o urges readers to think beyond the urban--on to the rurban--to understand the role of digital technologies. This book gives an extraordinary insight to the inequalities of, but also the changes that come with, internet access in peripheral areas of the UK and Brazil. This is a highly needed addition to existing literature on smart urban developments, where the everyday in peripheral places is set into the limelight, changing the perspective'.

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