Abstract
This paper offers an exploration of everyday life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh with a focus on how it has been reordered through commonplace digital technologies and services. We present findings from a qualitative field study. Themes emerging from the findings suggest that digital technologies have been important to the reordering of everyday life during the pandemic: videoconferencing have been instrumental in allowing urban residents to work from home, digital money has enabled workers in rural areas to continue financial transactions, and social media has been a source of news and rumours during the pandemic. However, the benefits of the digital reordering of everyday life are unevenly distributed. The themes emerging are used to frame a discussion of the notion of reordering compared to the concept of resilience within ICTD.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ICTD 2022: ACM Conference on The International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 27 Jun 2022 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Chapter | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 27 Jun 2022 |
Keywords
- Everyday life
- Covid-19 pandemic
- Digital technologies
- Qualitative field study
- Reordering and resilience in ICTD