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This comprehensive Handbook explores the multiple ways in which
people experience digital life. It maps the transitions in human
civilization generated by such digital technologies as the
internet, mobile telephony, artificial intelligence, the metaverse,
social media platforms and algorithms. It explores how the scarcity
or abundance of digital affordances impacts access, governance and
livelihoods in various parts of the world. The book’s 27 chapters
are organised in five sections: Social Media and Digital
Lifeworlds; Digital Affordances and Contestations; Digital Divides
and Inclusion Strategies; Work, Culture and Digital Consumption,
and New Media and Digital Journalism. The present and future of
digital transitions are interrogated in the context of everyday
social production and consumption. Â
Starting from the assumption that digital capital is a capital in
its own right, and can be quantified and measured as such, the
authors of this book examine how digital capital can be defined,
measured and impact policy. Using the Bourdieusian lens, this book
makes a critical contribution to the field by examining in depth
the notion of digital capital and by introducing a new theoretical
toolkit in order to fully conceptualise it. Against this
theoretical background, the authors propose a set of indicators
that can be used to measure digital capital at an individual level.
Ultimately, readers will learn how this can be used by policy
makers to tackle social inequalities which are based on the digital
exclusion of citizens.
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