Digital geographies of austerity: Young men's material, affective and everyday relationships with the digital
Digital geographies of austerity: Young men's material, affective and everyday relationships with the digital
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10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.023
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2021-02-06
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3.5
通讯作者：
McDowell, Linda
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作者：
Bonner-Thompson, Carl;McDowell, Linda
人们现在必须管理和谈判紧缩的不确定性的方式包括访问互联网、数字设备和使用它们的技能。例如，英国的通用信贷福利系统现在已经在线，但对一些人来说，获得和技能可能是不确定的或零星的。与此同时，数字技术不仅仅是一种“出路”的不稳定的情况下，许多人有矛盾的关系与“数字”，包括一些40年轻的白色工人阶级男性，我们采访了生活在物理上孤立的沿海城镇在英格兰，经过十年的紧缩政策已经增加了他们的社会经济排斥。在这里，我们通过对年轻人与数字技术的物质、情感和日常关系的研究，探索数字是如何被折叠成不确定和不安全的模式的。我们通过探索年轻人试图访问互联网时出现的空间和时间模式，增加了关于紧缩地理的争论。我们还通过探索年轻人与数字技术之间矛盾的情感和情感关系，为不断增长的数字地理领域做出贡献，以突出数字总是与权力相关，产生新形式的不平等和身份。我们认为，地理学家必须保持敏感，这些复杂和矛盾的关系与数字技术，如果他们被用来破坏边缘化，排斥和不确定性的过程。
The ways that people must now manage and negotiate the uncertainty of austerity involves access to the internet, digital devices and the skills to use them. The Universal Credit welfare system in the UK, for example is now online, however access and skills can be uncertain or sporadic for some. At the same time, digital technology is not simply a 'way out' of precarious situations and many people have ambivalent relationships with 'the digital', including some of the 40 young white working-class men we interviewed living in physically isolated coastal towns in England, after a decade of austerity policies have added to their socio-economic exclusion. Here, we explore how the digital is folded into patterns of uncertainty and insecurity through an examination of the material, affective and everyday relationships that young men have with digital technologies. We add to arguments about the geographies of austerity by exploring the spatial and temporal patterns that emerge as young men attempt to access the internet. We also contribute to the growing field of digital geographies by exploring the contradictory emotional and affective relationship young men have with digital technologies, to highlight how the digital always emerges in relation to power, producing new forms of inequality and identities. We argue that geographers must remain sensitive to these complex and contradictory relationships with digital technologies if they are to be used to disrupt processes of marginalisation, exclusion and uncertainty.