‘Digital indigestion’: cumbia, class and a post-digital ethos in Buenos Aires

Popular Music ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Baker
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Local Form ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
The Third ◽  
Popular Classes ◽  
Latin Americanism

AbstractThis article focuses on three recent manifestations of cumbia in Buenos Aires, Argentina: digital cumbia released by ZZK Records; retro cumbia orchestras; and a newer strand of digital cumbia, música turra. The first two are identified with the middle class, whereas the third emerged from the clases populares (‘popular classes’). Música turra is underpinned by government policies towards digital inclusion, while middle-class incursions into the traditionally working-class sphere of cumbia, too, suggest increasing social cohesion. However, the digital fascination of música turra contrasts with an embrace of the analogue and acoustic in middle-class cumbia. These developments point to the emergence of a post-digital ethos and a shift from a digital to a post-digital divide, also running along class lines, analysed here through a Bourdieusian lens of taste and distinction. While transnational in nature, the post-digital ethos appears in Buenos Aires in a distinctive local form, articulated to growing Latin Americanism and post-neoliberalism on the part of the middle class.

scholarly journals Social Class and The Unequal Digital Literacies of Youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Darvin
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Third ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Spatial Configurations

Recognizing the importance of technology to achieve agentive participation in the knowledge economy, this paper examines to what extent social class differences between youth shape their digital literacies. Drawing on a case study of adolescents of contrasting social positions, it discusses how the material and relational differences of home environments, manifested by spatial configurations, parental involvement and peer networks, can help develop diverse practices and dispositions towards technology. By demonstrating how the inequities of digital use can lead to the unequal accumulation of cultural and social capital, this paper concludes with the educational implications of the third digital divide.

scholarly journals Fratrædelsesforelæsning: ANTROPOLOGISKE DILEMMAER: Mellem kulturradikalisme og venstreorientalisme

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Liep
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cultural Relativity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
Intellectual Movements ◽  
Provincial Middle Class

This lecture is in three main parts. The first describes the author’s background in a provincial middle class family and the leftish values he absorbed from what is now called “cultural radicalism”. His discontent with his life in urban, capitalist society led him to study anthropology in the belief that “natural” societies of “happiness” could be found far out in the world. The second part briefly characterizes cultural radicalism as a field of progressive intellectual movements in Denmark from the 1920s that fought for the liberation of women, sexuality and the education of children. Danish cultural radicals took an interest in anthropology already during the 30s, when Malinowski’s discovery of free sex in the Trobriands was celebrated, and throughout the 1950s when books by Benedict and Mead on cultural relativity and child training were translated. With the great expansion of the middle class from the 50s the ideas of cultural radicalism deeply changed modern Danish cultural values and institutions. The third part is a critique of what I call “left-wing orientalism”. Cultural relativism was used as a cultural critique of our own society in order to call for reforms. In left-wing orientalism this stance is petrified so that only our society is “wrong” while all the “others” must not be criticized. I discuss three examples of this in anthropology: the general uncritical acceptance of the policies of indigenous movements; the post-colonial “retrospective retouching” of unseemly earlier practices such as cannibalism and, finally, the readiness of anthropologists in Denmark to put the blame for ethnic tensions in the country on the Danes only and their reluctance to take a critical stance to the patriarchal suppression of women and its religious legitimation that young immigrants now themselves speak out against.  

Bridging Latin America's Digital Divide: Government Policies and Internet Access

2003 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza Tanner Hawkins ◽  
Kirk A. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
Telecommunications Infrastructure ◽  
Social Shaping ◽  
The Government ◽  
Tariff Structure

Latin American governments are attempting to close the digital divide by enacting policies to increase access to information technologies. This cross-sectional time-series analysis of nineteen countries between 1990 and 2001 examines government policies and Internet usage. Based on the social shaping of technology perspective, this study finds Internet use is strongly associated with wealth and the telecommunications infrastructure. The government policy with the strongest influence on increasing access is changing the tariff structure—such as creating flat-price dialing schemes. Market liberalization and the worldwide spread of the Internet are also associated with increased access.

Policies and Strategies for Digital Inclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 256-284
Author(s):  
Laura Alcaide Muñoz ◽  
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar ◽  
Francisco José Alcaraz Quiles
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
The Eu

E-government has enhanced the availability of government information, and expanding access to services, offering greater transparency and accountability for public administrations. However, previous research indicates that there are significant barriers for citizens, assuming major obstacles. In this sense, the EU and, in particular, the Spanish government has formulated policies and legal frameworks to introduce in the field of the provision of public sector services, in order to customize and to access these services. These initiatives seek to promote the development of networks and services, to improve the e-administration and the adoption of digital solutions for efficient delivery of public services, and to promote the inclusion and digital literacy. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to obtain a vision of government strategies adopted by Spanish regional governments to reduce the digital divide.

New Faces of Digital Divide and How to Bridge It

2018 ◽  
pp. 7248-7258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Xavier Robichaud
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Political Access ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

The chapter aims to explore, through the lenses of digital divide, what are challenges to alleviating socio-economic and intellectual limitations for prosperity of each individual. Cutting-edge research is reviewed to discuss in what way new technologies and access to them really help to develop citizens who are able to contribute in creative and democratic ways to society. While much effort has been done, in the past decade, to bridge the digital divide, by resolving access issues and usage issues, the recent studies seem to indicate that the gap at all levels, nation-wide, community-wide, special groups-wide still exists and even deepens, especially regarding digital inclusion and meeting needs of at-risk population. More systematic research and innovative practical solutions are needed to address all the aspects of digital divide: physical, financial cognitive, content and political access; also, we have to consider the technological and social resonances of digital technologies in terms of digital literacy and development of critical thinking.

New Faces of Digital Divide and How to Bridge It

2019 ◽  
pp. 431-443
Author(s):  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Xavier Robichaud
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Political Access ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

The chapter aims to explore, through the lens of digital divide, the challenges to alleviating socio-economic and intellectual limitations for prosperity of each individual. Cutting-edge research is reviewed to discuss in what way new technologies and access to them really help to develop citizens who are able to contribute in creative and democratic ways to society. While much effort has been done in the past decade to bridge the digital divide by resolving access issues and usage issues, the recent studies seem to indicate that the gap at all levels, nation-wide, community-wide, special groups-wide still exists and even deepens, especially regarding digital inclusion and meeting needs of at-risk population. More systematic research and innovative practical solutions are needed to address all the aspects of digital divide: physical, financial cognitive, content, and political access; also, we have to consider the technological and social resonances of digital technologies in terms of digital literacy and development of critical thinking.

Bridging the Digital Divide

2008 ◽  
pp. 1290-1305
Author(s):  
Anna Malina ◽  
Ann Macintosh
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Digital Communities ◽  
Expected Outcomes ◽  
Planning Policies

Examined in this chapter is action to address the “digital divide,” and possibilities for extending e-democracy to support wider democratic participation using ICT in local communities. We describe current approaches in Scotland for tackling the digital divide, and we discuss the concept of wired communities. We also refer to “Digital Scotland” initiatives, and we outline the aims and expected outcomes from Scotland’s “Digital Communities” projects. Finally, we suggest how action research could extend electronic democratization into the two digital communities being created in Scotland. The research work we suggest would provide a framework in which to better appreciate the significance of technology in supporting e-democracy at local community levels, and in so doing, contribute knowledge to strategy and planning policies and social and digital inclusion agendas in Scotland.

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