果冻影院

Research

Subject

Internet and Urban Media for Social Neighbourhoods: Broadband in Rural Villages of Cornwall

Supervisors

Primary supervisor:聽Ava Fatah gen. Schieck
Secondary supervisor:聽Professor Alan Penn聽

Starting date: April 2014

Sponsor

颁翱狈础颁驰罢听

Abstract

My research study assesses to identify how the implementation of Internet broadband access distresses the everyday social lives of the residents of rural neighbourhoods in Cornwall.
For that purpose, the study seeks to comprehend the ways in which village dwellers interact in their locality, physically and mediated through the implementation of communication and information technological devices. This will allow to explain if Internet-based technologies are generating adjustments in the patterns of social cohesion and sense of belonging of the residents of rural villages in Cornwell.

The overall objective of the project explores the way in which broadband infrastructure access achieve socio-cultural and spatial changes in the everyday social life of individuals and collectivities from rural neighbourhoods of Cornwall. To meet this overall objective it is proposed to:

1.聽聽 聽Identify the patterns of social connections at neighbourhood places.
2.聽聽 聽Discover how people operate within offline and online social networks and explore how all this might relate to the places in which they choose to enact social behaviour.聽
3.聽聽 聽Address the impact of accessibility to broadband on how people interact and use public / semi-public spaces, and the consequential effects of this on social inclusion.

Biography

Abril is an academic and researcher in contemporary socio-cultural change; she commenced a PhD at the Bartlett School of Graduated Studies, 果冻影院 (2014). Her current research project intend to identify and understand how the implementation of broadband access can affect the everyday social life and the interaction with the symbolic and physical living space of the residents of rural neighbourhoods in Cornwall. For that purpose, she is proposing to map the different kind of virtual and physical relationships between village dwellers and analyse the social networks that they are capable to build in relation with their neighbourhood and their community to finally, explain if there are modifications in the patterns of social cohesion and sense of belonging through the usage of Internet-mediated communication.

She graduated with Honours in Political Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2010) with the thesis 鈥淭echnological Paradigm: New Society and New Politics on the Internet?鈥� During her degree she became interested in the different structures that regulate social and political Internet mediated participation, their principles and research tools that allow explaining new social dynamics of interaction. Her academic records also include a Pg. Dip. in Electronic Democracy and Citizen Participation from the Universitat de Girona (2007) and a M. A. in Cultural Studies from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (2012) where she worked on the dissertation 鈥淚nternet and Civil Society Organizations in Mexico: New Scenarios for Social and Political Participation鈥� an empiric study that exemplify the different scenarios and methodologies needed to explain new social and political participation through social media.聽

From 2006 to 2008 she worked as a Teaching Fellow for the Centre of Political Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, on the courses Methodologies for Political Research and Groups of Power and Political Negotiation from the major in Political Sciences. Later, from 2013 to 2014 she became adjunct professor of the courses Professional Practices for Social Sciences, Psychosocial Theories of Conflict and History of Culture in Mexico for the School of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Morelos. She has been visiting student at the University of Helsinki (2005), Georgia Tech (2008), San Diego State University (2011) and Brown University (2013) working under the topic of digital empowerment.聽

Publications and other work

Herrera, Abril & De Alba, Felipe. (2012) "C贸mo la era digital es una posibilidades para la movilizaci贸n pol铆tica?". In De Alba, Felipe; Gallegos, Carlos y Hauman, El铆as (Coords.).聽Las ciencias sociales frente a los problemas emergentes: 驴C贸mo analizarlos?, Barcelona, Spain. Collegium de Lyon, FCPyS-UNAM y UAM-Azcapotzalco. Pp. 74-90.聽ISBN听978-84-686-0437-4.

Herrera, Abril. (2012) "Posibilidades de movilizaci贸n pol铆tica en la era digital". In various authors,聽Estudios Culturales: Territorios Encontrados, Mexico City, Mexico. Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the UAM-Azcapotzalco. Pp. 272-285.聽ISBN听978-607-477-674-4.

Herrera, Abril; Mendoza, Betzab茅 & Valverde, Karla. (2008) 鈥淎prendizaje rec铆proco y participativo. Una estrategia metodol贸gica para la formaci贸n de cient铆ficos sociales鈥�. In various Authors,聽Memorias. Primer Foro Internacional: Ense帽ar y Aprender en Ciencias Pol铆ticas y Sociales. Retos y Perspectivas de la Educaci贸n Abierta y a Distancia. Vol. IV, Estrategias de Ense帽anza Aprendizaje. Mexico City, Mexico. FCPyS-UNAM.聽ISBN听978-970-9066-74-8.

Herrera, Abril; Mendoza, Betzab茅 & Valverde, Karla. (2008) 鈥淎prendizaje rec铆proco y participativo. Una estrategia metodol贸gica para la formaci贸n de cient铆ficos sociales鈥�. Sol贸rzano Marcial, Carmen & Valverde Viesca, Karla (Comps.).聽Estrategias de Ense帽anza en Ciencias Sociales: una aproximaci贸n desde la perspectiva docente. Mexico City, Mexico. FCPyS, UNAM, Ed. Gernika. Pp.159-173.聽ISBN听978-970-637-171-3.

Herrera, Abril & Valverde, Karla. (2006) 鈥淓l uso de la tecnolog铆a de la informaci贸n y comunicaciones como un nuevo elemento de an谩lisis social. La Internet como rizoma social鈥�. Comp. Puga Espinosa, Cristina.聽Formaci贸n en Ciencias Sociales en M茅xico. Una Mirada desde las universidades del pa铆s. Mexico City, Mexico. ACCECISO. Pp. 131-145. ISBN 978-607-774-400-9.

Translation:
From English to Spanish
Saskia Sassen. (2012) 鈥淐iudades en la era global鈥�. In various authors,聽Informe de las Ciencias Sociales en el Mundo. Las Brechas del Conocimiento. Mexico City, Mexico. Foro Consultivo Cient铆fico y Tecnol贸gico, A.C. Pp.27-31.聽ISBN听978-92-3-104131-0.