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Adoption of key technologies by those in the oldest age group has grown markedly since about a decade ago.
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“In this book, digital anthropologist Payal Arora proposes ways in which we can envision new design systems and thinking to include the world. Drawing from fieldwork on young people’s digital usage in Brazil, India, Bangladesh and Nigeria, Arora reveals how their understandings of algorithmic systems shape their creativity, trust, identity, and political action”–
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This paper examines phenomena at the intersection of polarization, religion, and social media. In particular, it disentangles and highlights the concept of “polarization in religion.” Polarization is a well-studied concept in political science and it has been considered in relation to religion before. However, these attempts are usually either interested in political polarization and the…
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically upended religious life and placed significant strain on religious congregations. However, the effects of the pandemic were likely not felt evenly across the religious landscape. Purpose We used data from the fourth wave of the National Congregations Study, gathered on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic in 2018–19, to identify…
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Abstract During the pandemic, many church leaders had to learn to manage a digital divide present within their congregations, which they were not aware of. This article explores the nature and traits of the digital divide many American churches encountered during this pandemic, based on a study of focus groups involving 478 church leaders from…
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Abstract An exploratory study investigated the factors affecting digital literacy training offered by local community organizations, such as public libraries. Theory based on the educational assessment and information literacy instruction literatures, community informatics, and situated learning theory served as a lens of investigation. Case studies of two public libraries and five other local community organizations…
