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标题：Privacy at the Margins| Technology in Rural Appalachia: Cultural Strategies of Resistance and Navigation
其他标题：Privacy at the Margins| Technology in Rural Appalachia: Cultural Strategies of Resistance and Navigation
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作者：Sherry Hamby ; Elizabeth Taylor ; Alli Smith 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Communication
印刷版ISSN：1932-8036
出版年度：2018
卷号：12
页码：21
语种：English
出版社：USC Annenberg Center
摘要：Existing research on technology in rural, low-income communities has focused primarily on financial obstacles and lack of infrastructure. We use a sociocultural framework for understanding technology in rural Appalachia, using a mixed-methods study of focus groups and interviews. Eight focus groups were held with a total of 65 people (58% female) from low-socioeconomic-status communities in rural Appalachia (ages 12 to 75). Then, in-depth interviews were conducted with 24 participants (62.5% female) on issues generated from focus groups. Participants reported ways of both resisting and navigating technology, many of which were deeply grounded in core Appalachian values, such as respect for privacy. Many participants were skeptical of the value of technology weighed against the loss of privacy, expressed regrets about the loss of self-reliance due to technology, and used self-deprecating humor as resistance. Participants reported numerous strategies for navigating technology risks and generally took an agentic approach to protecting themselves online. Many prominent themes in these transcripts show the ways that people from this community have reasserted their agency in their relationships with technology.
关键词：privacy; digital; online; rural; Appalachia; technology