Wednesday, October 9 4:00-5:30pm Alumnae Hall Anna Head A Bldg UC Berkeley 2537 Haste Street (just around the corner from ISSI) Laura Robinson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Santa Clara University *** Based on interviews with high school students living in agricultural California, this research examines how American families negotiate access to digital information resources or “net time.” Attention is paid to how socioeconomically disadvantaged families attempt to cope with resource scarcities—especially internet access necessary for schoolwork and college applications. The analysis reveals how intra-familial bargaining is guided by implicit social contracts between family members. These social contracts imply particular rights and responsibilities, depending on the families’ level of material resources. Different social contracts are evident across the economic spectrum. Some social contracts frame net time as an individualized good while others frame it as a communal good. The findings illuminate the logics underpinning familial negotiations over each kind of net time. Ultimately, familial social contracts over net time have the power to encourage or hinder use of net time for capital-enhancing activities. *** Laura Robinson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University. She earned her PhD from UCLA, where she held a Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Studies and received a Bourse d’Accueil at the École Normale Supérieure. In addition to holding a postdoctoral fellowship on a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funded project at the USC Annenberg Center, Robinson has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University and Visiting Scholar at Trinity College Dublin. Her research has earned awards from CITASA, AOIR, and NCA IICD. Robinson’s current multi-year study examines digital and informational inequalities. Her other publications explore interaction and identity work, as well as new media in Brazil, France, and the United States. Her website is laurarobinson.org. Email: [email protected]. *** This event is free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public.
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