Class, Cultural Capital, and the Mobile Phone

Luthar, Breda; Kropivnik, Samo

doi:10.13060/00380288.2011.47.6.01

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“…Internet access is obviously not a homogeneous phenomenon, as many other studies have stressed [Chadwick 2006;Selwyn 2004;Tondeur et al 2010;van Dijk 2006]. There are many digital gaps and different types of exclusions, which have been articulated previously in relation to mobile phones, at least in Slovenia [Luthar and Kropivnik 2011;Petrič, Petrovčič and Vehovar 2011]. Appropriation of technology is only in an extremely limited sense a result of individual choice, since most digital exclusion is actually a response to structural tensions, in the form of economic status, lack of skills and a perception of technology as a useful (or not useful) tool, that appear to correlate strongly with educational achievements.…”

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Slovenians Offline: Class and Cultural Aspects of Digital Exclusion

Črnič¹

2013

Czech Sociological Review

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This article seeks to identify who in Slovenia remains digitally offline and how such a status relates to socio-demographic factors (e.g. gender, age and education), class and cultural capital. The author assumes that the absence of new technology should be addressed in relation to existing patterns of cultural consumption and media preferences, and she attempts to understand the problem of digital exclusion within the context of other types of structural inequalities. Since digital technology is understood not just as a technical tool but as a social phenomenon directly related to everyday practices, the individual's class position and cultural capital, digital exclusion is not viewed simply as a narrow problem of access. Instead of looking at the binary gap between technology haves and have-nots, the author takes the multilevel structure of digital access into account. The fi ndings of a quantitative survey involving a representative sample of 820 residents in the two biggest Slovenian cities-Ljubljana and Maribor-show that, fi rst, three types of digital exclusion exist: digitally unmotivated with high cultural capital; overall excluded with weak cultural capital; and digitally self-excluded with moderate cultural capital. Second, the study suggests that all three digital exclusion groups are, more than by class, divided by cultural engagement and media taste, which provides important possibilities for future research.

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Slovenians Offline: Class and Cultural Aspects of Digital Exclusion

Črnič¹

2013

Czech Sociological Review

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“…Today's society revolves around technology, and due to the constant need for the cutting-edge high-tech products, people tend to generate a massive amount of e-waste [5]. E-wastes are the electronic components that are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling, or disposal [6].…”

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Protecting Environment, Managing E-Waste and Ensuring Development: Perspective on ‘Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment’ Situation in Guiyu, Agbogbloshie and Dhaka

Masoom

Toufique

2016

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Fast development of the electronics industry and an eminent value of obsolescence of the electronic productions conduce to the uninterrupted production of great amounts of electronic waste or e-wasteworldwide. Due to the frequent commingling of a wide range of reusable, or recyclable, and non-recyclable surplus electronics, the term "e-waste" infer all sorts of these leftovers. Even though the economic benefits are potentially enormous, only a small proportion of the electronic waste is being recycled all around. There is a transaction cost associated with therecycling process due to the environmental protection regulations, hence economically less attractiveat the industry level in developed nations. However, to the least developed nations where owing to low living standard the demand for the better quality environment is low, even nonexistent, recycling e-waste has become a livelihood earning opportunity. The study intends to interpret the socio-economic consequences of e-wastes by focusing the detrimental effects that it have created in China and Ghana, and attempts to outline what developing nations like Bangladesh can do to prevent or reduce the harmful consequences of it.

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“…People are currently on the lookout for high-tech and cutting-edge items. Furthermore, complying with the guidelines and rules of a regulating body such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a difficult task [1]. E-waste are expected to be found in the quantity of 5 million tonnes each year.…”

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Utilization of E-Waste as a Concrete Mixture for Infrastructural Buildings

Raffik¹,

Sharma

Aliyu

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The Portland cement has showed a negative impacts to the environmental and therefore researchers from all over the world are interested in using wastes and their recovered extraction processes to discover fresh construction materials. The present review manuscript is an attempt to reconsider the use of abandoned computer / electronic wastes, also known as E-waste, which is used as alternative materials for the development of a variety of non-toxic concrete for the industrial and construction sectors. The main goal of this review is to provide current position of concrete materials for this reason, it is necessary for understanding these modern, complicated, valuable, but hazardous wastes. These materials are used as alternate for crude aggregate in building material production. The brand-new, cutting-edge, and ground-breaking concept are used for the production of environmentally friendly, cost-effective green concretes. Furthermore, chemical, physical, and metallurgical reuse procedures for E-waste, as well as its benefits and dis-advantage with heat, tensile, the endurance characteristics for Electronic-wastes such as green concretes, unsafe compound, are appraised. This research also examines the application glass as E-waste from cathode rays are used in concrete, mortar, and cement paste. The E-waste materials are used as bituminous mixture. The "Urban Mining" strategies have recognized the application of non-biodegradable materials recovered as E-waste plastics as a partial substitute for natural courses or fine components. This review paper assists to promote the implementation of green precast E-waste in the construction sector in a sustainable and cost-effective manner, it also impasse the exhaustion of natural resources, environmental contamination in earth and underground water. It also concern over the environmental pollution and to defend the health of living organisms.

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Class, Cultural Capital, and the Mobile Phone

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Slovenians Offline: Class and Cultural Aspects of Digital Exclusion

Slovenians Offline: Class and Cultural Aspects of Digital Exclusion

Protecting Environment, Managing E-Waste and Ensuring Development: Perspective on ‘Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment’ Situation in Guiyu, Agbogbloshie and Dhaka

Utilization of E-Waste as a Concrete Mixture for Infrastructural Buildings

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