[Air-L] New Book: Digital Capital. A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Digital Divide
Jill Walker Rettberg
Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no
Thu Jan 30 01:49:41 PST 2020
I just wanted to say I loved this #CiteGradStudents email. I am trying to cite more grad students - I think this is a really important thing for everyone to be aware of. I also really hope the authors of that book cited Chris!
I have started logging how many early career researchers' work I read as well as cite, after reading Week 5 of Belcher's Write Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks about how to refine your works cited (the book turns out to have a lot of very good stuff in it even for experienced academics). It turns out I'm great at gender balance, improving on geographic and ethnic diversity but I'm absolutely terrible at citing early career researchers. I was kind of embarrassed to be honest because I hadn't realized I was only citing old people and a handful of young people I'd heard speak at conferences. So I've been making a real effort to improve this. It's horribly easy to only read stuff by people I know of already and it's really improving my thinking to go out of my way to find new and more diverse thinkers. Not to mention citing Chris or another grad student is going to make far more of a difference to them than giving another citation to Foucault or some well-established AoIR-scholar. I highly recommend paying attention to this.
Jill
Air-L på vegne av Chris Julien <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org på vegne av juliencm22 at gmail.com> skrev følgende den 29.01.2020, 19:12:
Dear all,
If my 2014 article, "Bourdieu, Social Capital and Online Interaction"
*Sociology
*49(2):356-373 is not among the citations, I will cry.
#CiteGradStudents
Sincerely,
Chris, a Hopeful Grad Student
Chris Julien
PhD Student (PSU), MA (UNCG)
State College, PA, USA
www.chrisjulien.com
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:25 AM Massimo Ragnedda <ragnedda at gmail.com>
wrote:
> --- *apologies for cross-posting *---
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> We are happy to announce the publication of the book DIGITAL CAPITAL. A
> BOURDIEUSIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, by Massimo Ragnedda
> (Northumbria University) and Maria Laura Ruiu (Northumbria University).
>
>
>
> More info here:
>
> https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Digital-Capital/?k=9781839095535
>
>
>
> We are happy to provide review copies to relevant journals. Any book
> reviews editor interested in seeing the book can request a digital review
> copy here:
> http://emeraldinsight.ereviews.eb20.com/Requests/Step1/9781839095535
>
> or email BooksandSeries at emeraldinsight.com to request a print copy.
>
>
>
> *The Blurb: *
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> *Review:*
>
> As digital communications becomes ever more central to everyday life, work
> and leisure, their impact on inequality becomes increasingly profound. Is
> there a new ‘digital capital’ acquired by those who gain most from these
> technologies? The authors, established experts in this field, address this
> problem with a thorough and informed analysis of the concept, and its
> implications for policy and understanding.’ - *Peter Golding, *Professor,
> Northumbria and Newcastle Universities, UK
>
>
>
> ‘Taking their inspiration from Bourdieu’s analysis of capital, Ragnedda and
> Ruiu extend the concept theoretically to the digital. Digital capital is
> operationalised through the creation of an index that accounts for
> differences in digital skills and competencies. Digital capital is then
> related to other forms of capital – economic, social and cultural – showing
> how digital capital works as a bridging capital allowing those with
> economic and cultural resources to use the digital to acquire ever greater
> advantage. This speaks to an important new wave of research on the ‘third
> level of the digital divide’ that seeks to measure outcomes. This is a
> highly cogent and important book both theoretically and empirically that
> should be of interest to sociologists of class and inequality as well as
> communication scholars seeking to understand the digital divide.’ - *John
> Downey*, Professor of Comparative Media Analysis and Head of Communication
> and Media, Loughborough University; Vice-President, European Communication
> Research & Education Association
>
>
>
> ‘Ragnedda and Ruiu’s build the field of Bourdieusian analysis of digital
> inequalities in their timely scholarship that speaks to key issues in the
> emergent field of digital divide studies: theory, methodology, and
> implications. The authors push the field forward by conceptualizing and
> operationalizing digital capital, thus integrating important theoretical
> insights with replicable empirical examination. Meeting this challenge
> allows their work to make real impact concerning the implications of
> digital inequalities for theorists, academics, policymakers, and
> practitioners.’ - *Laura Robinson*, Associate Professor, Santa Clara
> University
>
>
>
> ______________
>
> *Massimo Ragnedda* <http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda>
>
> Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication
>
> Squires Building 306f, Northumbria University, NE1 8ST Newcastle (UK)
>
> Tel: 01912437444
>
> Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State
> University <http://www.journ.msu.ru/eng/news/27610/>
>
>
>
> Most recent books:
>
> Bruce Mutsvairo and Massimo Ragnedda eds (2019) Mapping the Digital Divide
> in Africa. A Mediated Analysis.
> <
> https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462986855/mapping-the-digital-divide-in-africa
> >
> Amsterdam University Press
>
> Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo, eds (2018) *Digital Inclusion. An
> International Comparative Analysis
> <
> https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498562126/Digital-Inclusion-An-International-Comparative-Analysis
> >*,
> Lexington Books.
>
> Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn Muschert, eds (2018) *Theorizing Digital Divide*
> <http://bit.ly/2y9WSLm>, Routledge
>
> Massimo Ragnedda (2017) *The Third Digital Divide: A Weberian approach to
> digital inequalities* <http://bit.ly/2f8FObg>, Routledge.
>
>
>
> Latest articles:
>
> Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu and Felice Addeo (2019), Measuring
> Digital Capital: an empirical investigation
> <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444819869604>, New
> Media
> and Society
>
> Massimo Ragnedda (2018) Conceptualizing Digital Capital
> <
> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585318309316?via%3Dihub
> >,
> Telematics and Informatics
>
>
>
> Vice chair of Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR
> <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/working-group/DID>
>
> Co-convenors of NINSO (Northumbria Internet and Society Research Group
> <
> https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/northumbria-law-school/law-research/ninso-the-northumbria-internet-and-society-research-interest-group/
> >
> )
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