Digital platforms are a central infrastructure that has dramatically changed our daily lives. Like any other urban infrastructure and amenity, the digital platform has a heterogeneous influence on social groups. Studies exploring the influence of the digital on the mundane tend to focus on users, their socioeconomic status and their digital skills. However, digitisation is not an exogenous force; rather, it relates to culture and place. The departure point of this article is to conceptualise the idea of neighbourhood in the digital age, which offers a path towards understanding the role of the digital in our daily lives in relation to places. The article starts by discussing the neighbourhood and digitisation, addressing gaps and links that connect these themes. This discussion is followed by presentation of a framework linking the material with the virtual in understanding neighbourhoods. This framework is based on gathering data on four key issues: spatial configuration, digital infrastructure, demographic profile and digital participation in a neighbourhood. Jointly, these four issues are viewed as the means to contextualise and expand the way we think about the interplay between infrastructures and the agency of the neighbourhood’s inhabitants.

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理解数字时代社区的概念框架


数字平台是一个中央基础设施，极大地改变了我们的日常生活。与任何其他城市基础设施和便利设施一样，数字平台对社会群体具有异质性影响。探索数字对日常生活的影响的研究往往关注用户、他们的社会经济地位和他们的数字技能。然而，数字化并不是一种外生力量，而是一种外生力量。相反，它与文化和地点有关。本文的出发点是概念化数字时代的邻里概念，这为理解数字在我们日常生活中与场所相关的作用提供了一条途径。本文首先讨论邻里和数字化，解决连接这些主题的差距和联系。在讨论之后，提出了一个框架，将材料与虚拟联系起来，以理解社区。该框架基于收集四个关键问题的数据：空间配置、数字基础设施、人口概况和社区的数字参与。这四个问题共同被视为情境化和扩展我们思考基础设施与社区居民机构之间相互作用的方式的手段。