Digital Disconnect

As more of social life moves online, a pressing question follows: which people are being pushed to the edges? Helsper looks at how digital access and social disadvantage intersect, tracing causes that range from broad structural forces to the small choices people make every day, along with the effects these have on how people actually live.

Instead of stopping at the familiar question of who has access and who does not, Helsper asks why digital and social inequalities are connected and how that connection operates. The book then turns to the concrete results of these combined inequalities as they show up in ordinary routines and circumstances.