INVESTIGADORES
BENITEZ LARGHI Hector Sebastian
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Popular classes and unequal appropriation of ICT
Autor/es:
BENÍTEZ LARGHI SEBASTIÁN
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Congreso; 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology. "Social justice & democratization"; 2012
Institución organizadora:
International Sociological Association
Resumen:
The purpose of this work is to analize the ICT appropriation process by argentinean popular classes. The paper recovers findings of several qualitative research conducted by the author during the last decade. In this sense, practices and representations of technology of different social gropus (grass root organizations, unmeployed women, the youth) are enquired. While access, skilss and uses of computer and Internet of theses subjects are recovered, at the same time, notions such as digital divide, digital poverty and appropriation are critically revised. Finally, as a conclusion, the paper present several hypothesis to comprehend ICT appropiation by popular classes.