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Homelessness and mobile communication : precariously connected / Justine Humphry.

9811938385 electronic book
9789811938382 (electronic bk.)
9789811938375
9811938377

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages)

10.1007/978-981-19-3838-2 doi

HV4493 .H86 2022

362.5/92

This book examines how mobile phones and the internet have become a vital part of the everyday lives of people experiencing homelessness. But the access mobile phones provide is costly, insecure and limited, producing an experience of being precariously connected. Drawing on findings of research conducted with over one hundred young people, families and adults experiencing homelessness in Australia and the United States, this book analyses homelessness as a mediated condition and explores the underpinning processes that shape digital disparities. It contributes to scholarship on mobile communication and inequality, highlighting the digital patterns, issues and difficulties of a group disproportionately affected by service reform and developments in digital citizenship, smart cities and algorithmic governance. Dr Justine Humphry is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney (Australia). Her research examines the cultural and political implications of digital media in everyday life and the lived realities of techno-marginalisation. A key concern of her research is the consequences of mobile, smart and data driven technologies for under-represented and excluded communities.

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