Just published with @joelleswart.bsky.social lead-author Alex Smit in @cogitatiosi.bsky.social:
The Regime of SelfβOptimization: Lived Experiences of Enforced Digital Inclusion by LowβLiterate Citizens www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...
Now out (open access) from Alex Smit's PhD research:
Understanding digital citizenship in everyday life: tensions between digital inclusion policies and disadvantaged citizensβ experiences
w/ Alex Smit & @joelleswart.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We introduce this theoretical framework to understand how disadvantaged citizens are compelled to continually improve their digital skills and capacities to meet the demands of the digital welfare state. We then show how lowβliterate Dutch citizens experience this regime in their everyday lives.