Evaluating New Digital Technologies Through a Framework of Resilience

Roberts, Elisabeth; Farrington, John; Skerratt, Sarah

Abstract

© 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This paper explores how an evaluative framework of resilience might be utilised to assess the impact of new digital technologies. This paper outlines key themes and indicators from recent literature on community-level and rural resilience and incorporates insights from work on digital inclusion and rural information and communication technologies to build a framework of rural community resilience. It then highlights a successful case study carried out by the Digital Engagement and Resilience project and describes some of the methodological challenges that can be encountered in cross-cutting evaluative work in a digital economy context. Finally, it contextualises this work in the current policy climate of rural digital agendas to stress the growing need for holistic and critical approaches to ‘resilience’.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 30, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Oct 16, 2015
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Aug 15, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 15, 2019
• Journal: Scottish Geographical Journal
• Print ISSN: 1470-2541
• Electronic ISSN: 1751-665X
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 253-264
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2015.1068947
• Keywords: resilience, digital inclusion, rural broadband, ICTs
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/2253506
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2015.1068947
• Contract Date: Aug 15, 2019