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Mirrored Spaces Joerg Scheffer

Mirrored Spaces By Joerg Scheffer

Mirrored Spaces by Joerg Scheffer


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This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalisation and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement.

Mirrored Spaces Summary

Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age by Joerg Scheffer

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 Loews sociology of space and Bourdieus 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.

About Joerg Scheffer

Joerg Scheffer is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Passau. His main research interests, in addition to digital geography and urban studies, are in social and cultural geography.


Table of Contents

Introduction: Technological Competence and Social Change in a Spatial Perspective.- Stratification, Socialisation and Space.- Digital and Digitized Space as an Opportunity for Advancement.- Data-Based Utilisation Contexts.- Decontextualized data and socio-spatial differences.- Recursive Spaces.- Conclusion and Outlook.

Additional information

NPB9783658427924
9783658427924
3658427922
Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age by Joerg Scheffer
New
Hardback
Springer
2023-12-10
114
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