TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scheffer,Jörg
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age 
T2  - Geographies of Media,
SN  - 9783658427931
AV  - GF 
U1  - 304.2 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Wiesbaden
PB  - Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Social structure
KW  - Equality
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Digital humanities
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Social Structure
KW  - Urban Sociology
KW  - Digital Humanities
N1  - 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; 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 digitalization. This book is an essential resource for researchers and students interested in socio-economic inequalities, processes of digitalisation, and digital geographies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42793-1
ER  -