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Introduction: digital inclusion: empowering people through information and communication technologies (ICTS) / Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo -- Digital inclusion in advanced countries. Reducing and preventing digital discrimination: digital inclusion strategies in Europe / Massimo Ragnedda -- Not so ubiquitous: digital inclusion and older adults in Australia / Sue Malta and Raelene Wilding -- Digital inclusion in international perspective: an asset-based approach to digital inclusion research in t US context / Bianca C. Reisdorf and Colin Rhinesmith -- Digital inclusion in BRICS countries. From access to proficiency: reconceptualising digital inclusion in a rural area in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit -- Mapping the evolutive trajectories of China's digital divide: a longitudinal observation / Jianbin Jin, Fanxin Meng, Anfan Chen, Lin Shi, and Tao Wang -- Changes in knowledge acquisition according to the proximity with digital media networks / Andrea Limberto -- Digital inclusion in the Middle East. Digital inclusion in Jordan: opportunities and hurdles / Hanna Kreitem -- An explanatory analysis of Facebook's effect on social cohesion in Iran / Hamid Abdollahyan and Mahin Sheikh Ansari -- "Nothing is ever truly new": the persisting digital exclusion in Israel, 2002-2013 / Amit M. Schejter, Orit Ben-Harush, and Noam Tirosh -- Digital inclusion in Africa. LCT and development: narrowing the digital divide and the knowledge gap of ICT users in Cameroon and Ghana / Kehbuma Langmia and Christiana Hammond -- Kenya's digital divide: challenged, evolving, and persistent / Norbert Wildermuth -- Afterword, why digital inclusion now? / Gerard Goggin

This collection presents policy and research that addresses digital inequalities, access, and skills, from multiple international perspectives. With a special focus on the impact of the COVID-19, the collection is based on the 2021 Digital Inclusion, Policy and Research Conference, with chapters from both academia and civic organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed citizens' relationship with digital technologies for the foreseeable future. Many people's main channels of communication were transferred to digital services, platforms, and apps. Everything 'went online': our families, friends, partners, health, work, news, politics, culture, arts and protesting. Yet access to digital technologies remained highly unequal. This brought digital inclusion policy and research to the fore, highlighting to policymakers and the public the 'hidden' challenges and impacts of digital exclusion and inequalities. The cutting-edge volume offers research findings and policycase studies that explore digital inclusion from the provision of basic access to digital, via education and digital literacy, and on to issues of gender and technology. Case studies are drawn from varied sources including the UK, Australia, South America, and Eastern Europe, providing a valuable resource in the pursuit of social equity and justice. ​ This is an open access book.

Chapter 1:Introduction -- Chapter 2: Dirt Tracks off the Superhighway: How COVID widened the digital gap for remote First Nations communities in Australia -- Chapter 3: Policy interventions to address digital inequalities in Latin America in the face of the pandemic -- Chapter 4: Connecting Scotland: Delivering Digital Inclusion at Scale -- Chapter 5: Digital inclusion and learning at home: Challenges for low-income Australian families -- Chapter 6: How to make affordability-focused digital inclusion interventions more effective: Lessons from the Connected Students Program -- Chapter 7: Digital inclusion through distribution of iPads during the Covid19 pandemic? A participatory action research in a German secondary school -- Chapter 8:Infocomics vs Infodemics: How comics utilise health, data and media literacies -- Chapter 9: On creating creativity for future-proofing digital engagement, an evidence-based approach -- Chapter 10: Through Media and Digital Literacy Education towards Civic Participation of Disadvantaged Youth -- Chapter 11: Evaluating 'Meaningful Connectivity': Digital Literacy and Women in West Bengal, India -- Chapter 12: Developing and delivering and data literacy.

This book examines opportunities and obstacles in achieving the digital inclusion of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It addresses basic requirements of the digital society and the concepts of digital inclusion (and exclusion), digital participation, and the disability digital divide as well as support for individuals with autism in co-creating digital devices. The book discusses the application of digital technologies across different contexts, including education, leisure activities, community life, daily living skills, and employment of individuals with autism. Featured areas of coverage include: Computer-based interventions for speech development, social communication, executive functions, and other skills in children with autism.Digital health intervention for persons with ASD.Risks for persons with ASD on the Internet (e.g., excessive use, addictive behavior, and cyberbullying).Digital technology use in simulating job interviews, and teaching work skills.Digital technology use in self-advocacy activities of individuals with autism. Digital Inclusion of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder is an essential reference for researchers, professors, graduate students, clinicians and related therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, social work, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, pediatrics, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, neurology, special education, child and adolescent psychiatry, and developmental psychology

This book examines opportunities and obstacles in achieving the digital inclusion of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It addresses basic requirements of the digital society and the concepts of digital inclusion (and exclusion), digital participation, and the disability digital divide as well as support for individuals with autism in co-creating digital devices. The book discusses the application of digital technologies across different contexts, including education, leisure activities, community life, daily living skills, and employment of individuals with autism. Featured areas of coverage include: Computer-based interventions for speech development, social communication, executive functions, and other skills in children with autism. Digital health intervention for persons with ASD. Risks for persons with ASD on the Internet (e.g., excessive use, addictive behavior, and cyberbullying). Digital technology use in simulating job interviews, and teaching work skills. Digital technology use in self-advocacy activities of individuals with autism. Digital Inclusion of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder is an essential reference for researchers, professors, graduate students, clinicians and related therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, social work, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, pediatrics, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, neurology, special education, child and adolescent psychiatry, and developmental psychology.

PART I. Theoretical and empirical insights into vulnerable people's digital inclusion -- 1. Resilience and Digital Inclusion: The Digital Re-making of Vulnerability? -- 2. Digital Inequality Research for Digital Publics: A Call for Digital Public and Policy Social Science -- 3. Multidimensional Digital Exclusion and its Relation to Social Exclusion -- PART II. Ethnic minorities' digital inclusion -- 4. Understanding the Role of Social Media on the Road to Social Inclusion: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Belgium -- 5. Stories of migration: Exploring the Links Between Emotions and Technologies in the Narratives of Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil -- 6. Digital Citizenship for Older Migrants in Australia: The Need for a Comprehensive Policy Framework -- 7. Critical Commentary: Migrant Populations and Intersectional Discrimination: A Technological World's Blind Spot -- Part III. Ageing and digital inclusion -- 8. Digital Exclusion in Later Life: A Narrative Review -- 9. Digital Media Use and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of East York Older Adults -- 10. Enhancing Older Adults' Digital Inclusion Through Social Support: A Qualitative Interview Study -- 11. Critical Commentary: Understanding Digital Inclusion of Older People Through a Human Rights Lens -- PART IV. Digital inclusion of people with disabilities. 12. New Cities, Old Prosthesis - Smart Cities, Smart Phones and Disability -- 13. Disability as Smart Equality: Inclusive Technology in a Digitally Advanced Nation -- 14. Digital Inclusion and Social Networks Among Adults with Disabilities in South Korea -- 15. Differently Included: A Decolonial Perspective on Disability and Digital Media in South Africa -- 16. Critical Commentary: Disability, Technology and Intersectionality: Towards the Transformation of Digital and Physical Worlds -- 17. Editor's Conclusion: Intersectionality and Other Lessons.

This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the collection brings together theoretical and applied research evidence on three vulnerable population categories: ethnic minorities, older people and people with disabilities. Each section is accompanied by a critical commentary on the research insights presented, from third sector community and policy experts. The collection explores whether vulnerable populations face similar experiences and challenges in relation to their digital inclusion status, stressing the central presence of intersectionality, and arguing for the inclusion of the age, ethnicity/immigration status and disability aspects of ones identity. At the same time, it argues for multi-directional action that tackles intersectional discrimination in the digital realm on behalf of more than one single population category or group. Challenging popular discourse on the overcoming of digital inequalities in the West, this essential book contends that accounts of non-western contexts do not focus on the parameter of vulnerability or on particular population groups. Panayiota Tsatsou is Associate Professor at the University of Leicester. Her research interests lie in the areas of digital inclusion and Internet studies. Panayiota has published widely on the role of vulnerable and ordinary people as digital media actors.

Contemporary models of digital inclusion and the digital divide assume that developing the digital literacy that enables individuals to participate in society is a sequential and linear process that is more or less similar for all individuals in all contexts and requires basic linguistic skills. This paper challenges these understandings, arguing that such a technical, normative perspective excludes marginalized and disadvantaged publics, such as low-(digital) literate citizens. Based on a longitudinal ethnographic study of low-literate Dutch adults, we show that the often-described causal relation between (digital) literacies, (digital) participation, and (digital) inclusion is not as evident as it seems and neglects the important socio-cultural contexts through which (digital) literacies are often gained and enacted in everyday practice. Consequently, we argue that current conceptualizations of (digital) inclusion and (digital) participation need to be rethought in terms of the limitations, potential, and capabilities of low-literate people.

In this thesis, we tackle two social disruptions: recent refugee waves in Germany and the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as a key means of alleviating these disruptions and promoting social inclusion. As social disruptions typically lead to frustration and fragmentation, it is essential to ensure the social inclusion of individuals and societies during such times. In the context of the social inclusion of refugees, we focus on the Syrian refugees who arrived in Germany as of 2015, as they form a large and coherent refugee community. In particular, we address the role of ICTs in refugees' social inclusion and investigate how different ICTs (especially smartphones and social networks) can foster refugees' integration and social inclusion. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we focus on the widespread unconventional working model of work from home (WFH). Our research here centers on the main constructs of WFH and the key differences in WFH experiences based on personal ...