TY  - GEN
AU  - Scheffer,Jörg
TI  - Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age
T2  - Geographies of Media
SN  - 978-3-658-42793-1
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Wiesbaden
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Human geography
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Social issues & processes
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Society & social sciences
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - Social Space
KW  - Digital Geographies
KW  - Social Reproduction
KW  - Filter Bubble
KW  - Digital Divide
KW  - Data Economy
KW  - Socio-economic inequality
KW  - Digitalization
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalisation and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement. Contrary to the prevailing narratives of “digital empowerment” and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalisation massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective, Scheffer demonstrates how socially disadvantaged groups are faced with reproducing mechanisms as part of a new data economy. Surprisingly, the more intensively digital services are used, the more this happens. Building on Löw´s sociology of space and Bourdieu´s concept of habitus, this book shows how practices of social exclusion are transferred to the digital present in an innovative way. The image of “mirrored” spaces describes a new mechanism that explains social exclusion in the age of digitalisation. This book is an essential resource for researchers and students interested in socio-economic inequalities, processes of digitalisation, and digital geographies
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86137/1/978-3-658-42793-1.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86137/1/978-3-658-42793-1.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131999
ER  -