Digital emergency is/as the digital (new) normal

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Daly, Angela; Taylor, Linnet and Sharma, Gargi and Martin, Aaron and Jameson, Shazade, eds. (2020) Digital emergency is/as the digital (new) normal. In: Data Justice and COVID-19. Meatspace Press, London, pp. 76-83. ISBN 978-1-913824-01-3

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought huge changes to humanity's way/s of life, with no country completely untouched by disruption. However, in this disruption, I see many themes which evidence continuity with pre-existing problem, inequalities, and (negative) tendencies in digitisation, ultimately contributing to a less just digital world. There are a few aspects of the COVID-19 response which demonstrate glimmers of hope for a better world, including a digital one, being possible. But my fear is that these will remain marginal and instead hegemonic power will be consolidated even more in the context of this state of emergency. I hope I am proved wrong.

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Daly, Angela ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7529-4213; Taylor, Linnet, Sharma, Gargi, Martin, Aaron and Jameson, Shazade
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