IAMCR webinar ‘Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion’ to be held on March 19
16.03.2021
The International Association for Media and Communication Research – IAMCR – is a worldwide professional organization in the field of media and communication research, of which the Faculty of Journalism is a member. IAMCR aims to support and develop media and communication research throughout the world. It particularly encourages the participation of emerging scholars, women and those from economically disadvantaged regions.
Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion webinar will be moderated by the Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education Professor Elena Vartanova and attended by a number of prominent scholars from all over the world. The webinar will focus on digital divide issue and integration opportunities for different social groups. The presentations will encompass most recent studies on the digital inclusion of people with disabilities, prisoners and ex-convicts, minors, various ethnic and cultural groups. The participants will also discuss the evolution of digital divide, as major technological and social problem.
The list of presentations includes:
Non-members willing to participate should send an email to register4iamcrwebinar@gmail.com.
The deadline to register is 17 March at 17h00 UTC.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research – IAMCR – is a worldwide professional organization in the field of media and communication research, of which the Faculty of Journalism is a member. IAMCR aims to support and develop media and communication research throughout the world. It particularly encourages the participation of emerging scholars, women and those from economically disadvantaged regions.Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion webinar will be moderated by the Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education Professor Elena Vartanova and attended by a number of prominent scholars from all over the world. The webinar will focus on digital divide issue and integration opportunities for different social groups. The presentations will encompass most recent studies on the digital inclusion of people with disabilities, prisoners and ex-convicts, minors, various ethnic and cultural groups. The participants will also discuss the evolution of digital divide, as major technological and social problem.
The list of presentations includes:
- ‘Digital inclusion and ethnicity: Mapping differences between Russians and Yakuts online’ by Anna Gladkova (Lomonosov Moscow State University) and Nikita Argylov (Far Eastern Federal University)
- ‘From digital divide to algorithms divide: The evolution of digital inequalities’ by Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University)
- ‘AI and digital inclusion: The case of disability’ by Gerard Goggin (Nanyang Technological University)
- ‘Digital inclusion of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals: Case studies from the United States’ by Bibi Reisdorf (University of North Carolina at Charlotte).
Non-members willing to participate should send an email to register4iamcrwebinar@gmail.com.
The deadline to register is 17 March at 17h00 UTC.