Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard for Households With Children
| Dates: | 8 November 2023 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | The Christabel Pankhurst Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Current University students, General public, Secondary schools |
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Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on 8th November, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/92149996434). Prof Simeon Yates from the University of Liverpool will talk about “Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard for Households With Children”
Simeon Yates is the Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Communications and Media at the University of Liverpool and Joint Director of the Digital Media and Society Research Institute. Simeon has undertaken research on the social, political, and cultural impacts of digital media for over three decades. For the last two decades he has had a focus on projects that address issues of digital inclusion and exclusion. Simeon is a Member Greater Manchester City Region Mayoral Digital Inclusion Action Network, and he is an appointed expert advisor to the UK's Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the UK's media regulator Ofcom.
This talk will report on the development of the Minimum Digital Living Standard and the initial results from the survey. Overall, the project seeks to understand variation in needs, the specific challenges in families meeting, and the consequences of not meeting, the Minimum Digital Living Standard. As a future step the survey data, along with other relevant secondary data, will be integrated into a geodemographic. Qualitative work is ongoing with representatives of families who are below the Minimum Digital Living Standard to explore issues arising from falling below the standard. The work has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Welsh Government, and Nominet.
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