The computer and Internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor persons
Computers and the Internet constitute a part of the popular imaginary, even though the majority does not possess them. Thus, this imaginary is beginning to incorporate the subjective necessity of using the new technologies but from a position where access is objectively prohibited. The new imaginary...
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| author | Rosalía WINOCUR IPARRAGUIRRE |
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| description | Computers and the Internet constitute a part of the popular imaginary, even though the majority does not possess them. Thus, this imaginary is beginning to incorporate the subjective necessity of using the new technologies but from a position where access is objectively prohibited. The new imaginary generates desires, expectations, and aspirations from a position of generalized dispossession, which not only promotes myth-making about origins and possibilities but also fears and anxieties concerning how the computer may come to constitute one more factor of social exclusion. My research has the objective of inquiring into these diverse representations in the popular imaginary as a way of demonstrating how inequalities areconstructed in the symbolic appropriation of the new technologies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ce38a625cf145d0a7767cf222bba1e92022-12-22T03:53:30ZengEdiciones Universidad de SalamancaEducation in the Knowledge Society2444-87292016-05-016113089The computer and Internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor personsRosalía WINOCUR IPARRAGUIRRE0Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)Computers and the Internet constitute a part of the popular imaginary, even though the majority does not possess them. Thus, this imaginary is beginning to incorporate the subjective necessity of using the new technologies but from a position where access is objectively prohibited. The new imaginary generates desires, expectations, and aspirations from a position of generalized dispossession, which not only promotes myth-making about origins and possibilities but also fears and anxieties concerning how the computer may come to constitute one more factor of social exclusion. My research has the objective of inquiring into these diverse representations in the popular imaginary as a way of demonstrating how inequalities areconstructed in the symbolic appropriation of the new technologies.http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/revistatesi/article/view/14453exclusión socialtecnologías de la información y la comunicaciónfractura digital |
| spellingShingle | Rosalía WINOCUR IPARRAGUIRRE The computer and Internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor persons Education in the Knowledge Society exclusión social tecnologías de la información y la comunicación fractura digital |
| title | The computer and Internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor persons |
| title_full | The computer and Internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor persons |
| title_fullStr | The computer and Internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor persons |
| title_full_unstemmed | The computer and Internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor persons |
| title_short | The computer and Internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor persons |
| title_sort | computer and internet as strategy of social inclusion in the imaginary of the poor persons |
| topic | exclusión social tecnologías de la información y la comunicación fractura digital |
| url | http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/revistatesi/article/view/14453 |
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