The Reordering of Everyday Life through Digital technologies During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Hasib Ahsan; Lars Rune Christensen

doi:10.1145/3572334.3572375

The Reordering of Everyday Life through Digital technologies During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3572334.3572375
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2022
Event	International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development - Seattle, United States Duration: 27 Jun 2022 → 29 Jun 2022 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3572334

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Conference	International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	27/06/2022 → 29/06/2022
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3572334

Keywords

Everyday life
Covid-19 pandemic
Digital technologies
Qualitative field study
Reordering and resilience in ICTD

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Ahsan, H & Christensen, LR 2022, The Reordering of Everyday Life through Digital technologies During the Covid-19 Pandemic. in ICTD 2022: ACM Conference on The International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-7, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Seattle, Washington, United States, 27/06/2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3572334.3572375

The Reordering of Everyday Life through Digital technologies During the Covid-19 Pandemic. / Ahsan, Hasib ; Christensen, Lars Rune.
ICTD 2022: ACM Conference on The International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. p. 1-7.

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