Digital Divides in the Era of Widespread Internet Access: Migrant Youth Negotiating Hierarchies in Digital Culture

摘要: In this chapter I analyse the digital practices of migrant youth as situated, power-laden, pleasurable and sometimes painful everyday experiences. develop Walter Benjamin’s theorisations nineteenth century “arcade” or commercial passageway (Benjamin W (1999) The Arcades project. Harvard University Press, Cambridge), together with Nirmal Puwar’s understanding how non-normative bodies become “space invaders” (Puwar N (2004) Space invaders: race, gender out place. Berg, Oxford) upon entering certain domains, in order to conceptualise spatial biases online platforms their subversions. argument builds on survey, interview ethnographic data gathered part interdisciplinary research project Wired Up. Digital media innovative socialisation for run by Utrecht University. argue firstly offline societal power relations related race ethnicity, religion travel create new divides that go beyond computer ownership Internet access. Secondly, spaces negotiation relations, belonging greater cultural an increasingly multicultural world.