[chisigmail] Reminder: PhD Completion Seminar: Self-Initiated Individual Digitalization: A Study About Transition Mechanism Of ICT Beginners Among The Rural-Urban Migrants In Beijing

[Daryl Ku]

(Apologies for cross posting)

Here is a reminder regarding the below seminar taking place tomorrow:



You are cordially invited to a PhD completion seminar.

PRESENTER:	Weizhen Lei, Department of Information Systems, University of  
Melbourne

TITLE:		Self-Initiated Individual Digitalization: A Study About Transition  
Mechanism Of ICT Beginners Among The Rural-Urban Migrants In Beijing

VENUE:		University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street,  
Carlton

DATE and TIME:	Friday 03 Jul 2009, 3-4 pm

ABSTRACT:
In discussing and planning interventions around the "digital divide"  
people tend to think in terms of the binary oppositions of digital "haves"  
and "have-nots". Information and communications technologies (ICT)  
programs sponsored by governments and other agencies to address the  
"digital divide" also tend to be "top-down" initiatives that focus on the  
provision of institutional aid and the development of infrastructure. This  
study conducted a survey of 495 samples and a series of in-depth  
interviews with 44 people among the rural-urban migrants in Beijing. It  
has applied and synthesized theories of migration, digitalization and  
self-identity to understanding the use of digital technologies by
rural-urban migrants in China. This study has explored the process through  
which rural-urban migrants adopt digital technologies (individual  
digitalization), and found that this process is spontaneous and largely  
self-motivated by the need of these migrants to create new identities for  
themselves in the city. This study also explained the interaction between  
this self-initiated digital transition and the migrants' need for autonomy.

Please forward to others if interested. All are welcome.



-- 
Daryl Ku
PhD Candidate & Interaction Design Group Coordinator

Interaction Design Group
Department of Information Systems
Room 4.65, ICT Building
University of Melbourne
+61 3 834 41516
darylk at unimelb.edu.au