Digital Resilience between Social Distance and Algorithmic Closeness

Stepanović, Ivana (2022) Digital Resilience between Social Distance and Algorithmic Closeness. In: Social Services Today and Tomorrow to ensure Equal Access and Resilience Socio Summit 2022 – conference volume. Felsőbbfokú Tanulmányok Intézete, Kőszeg, pp. 131-138. ISBN 978-615-5742-42-2

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Abstract

The concept of digital resilience acquired new meanings immediately after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic when online platforms became the only solution to maintain businesses, communications and our private lives. Overnight, the vast majority of human actions and interactions moved into the online sphere and populations quickly adapted to the “new normal” of distanced sociability and digital social innovation. Technology has become the means of empowerment and resilience during this major health crisis, moreover, its rapid expansion and development has inadvertently helped people with disabilities to improve the quality of their lives and feel better integrated into the social fabric. However, this concept of resilience stems from the neoliberal ideology that prioritises the health and well-being of individuals over the collective good. By showing the need for cooperation and interconnectedness in terms of battling global crises, the pandemic has silently undermined the core principles of neoliberalism and offered alternative ways to cope with the world’s biggest challenges. This paper investigates how the digital turn towards social distancing simultaneously reinforces and challenges the neoliberal concept of digital resilience.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Depositing User: iksi iksi
Date Deposited: 31 Oct 2022 10:16
Last Modified: 23 Dec 2023 20:08
URI: http://institutecsr.iksi.ac.rs/id/eprint/615

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