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Transnational Spaces and Digital Divide Using Sociocybernetic Tools and Concepts
Transnational Spaces and Digital Divide Using Sociocybernetic Tools and Concepts
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 16:00-17:30
Location:
RC51 Sociocybernetics (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
A key aspect of inequalities reproduction is the social gap regarding access, use and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that can be applied to regions, countries and specific populations. In regions such as North America and Europe, transnational social spaces are growing due to many reasons. For example, since there are people building multiple networks connecting through cyberspace to different countries, due to the creation of social groups with members from different countries, or because of migration dynamics where people settling in a different country use cyberspace to keep linked themselves to their original social roots. Social groups going beyond national borders, physically or using media tools, face many challenges to access and use ICT, in front of many forms of violence and forms of exclusion. This session aims to bring together papers using sociocybernetic tools and concepts focusing transnational social spaces that are creating physical and virtual bridges of communication beyond borders, connecting people despite remoteness, or confronting physical or virtual impositions targeting to disconnect, restrict or confine people into specific prearranged destructive places or dynamics.
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