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Towards Digital Social Infrastructure? Digital Neighborly Connectedness as a Social Resource
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Abstract Social infrastructure is made up of various material as well as non-material goods, ranging from venues for leisure such as movie theaters to indispensable everyday commodities, like sidewalks and streets. This is true both for urban and rural areas. However, the increasing emergence of digital aspe... mehr
Social infrastructure is made up of various material as well as non-material goods, ranging from venues for leisure such as movie theaters to indispensable everyday commodities, like sidewalks and streets. This is true both for urban and rural areas. However, the increasing emergence of digital aspects of social infrastructure has seemed to go unnoticed to some extent, with research specifically focusing on these digital aspects of social infrastructure being scarce at best—even though digitalization is currently a major emerging meta-development worldwide. The goal of our contribution is therefore to investigate the digital sphere and integrate it into the concept of social infrastructure. Drawing on descriptive findings from a multi-sited, community-based survey of residents in four rural areas in Germany (N = 413) as well as from 40 qualitative interviews, we present an integrative and expanded conceptualization of what we term a tangible digital social infrastructure. To do so, we examine digital neighborly connectedness as a social resource during the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study. We argue that digital neighborly connectedness served as both an integral part of on-site social infrastructure and as a social resource, especially during pandemic times. We discuss our results in light of current research on social infrastructure, with a specific focus on the scope of what counts as social infrastructure, as well as current discourse on social infrastructure in rural areas.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Digitalisierung; qualitative Methode; soziale Infrastruktur; ländlicher Raum; Nachbarschaft; soziale Beziehungen; Gemeinschaft
Klassifikation
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Agrarsoziologie
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
digital neighborly connectedness; qualitative analysis
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 420-431
Zeitschriftentitel
Urban Planning, 7 (2022) 4
Heftthema
Localizing Social Infrastructures: Welfare, Equity, and Community
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)