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• emphasising the consequences of digitisation in terms of well-being, health, and wealth – rather than digitisation itself.
• Techno-optimists counter that connected technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to the same people, allowing them to ‘catch up’ and even overcome existing inequalities.
• While I use the language of causes and consequences, and discuss these links in rather linear, sequential ways, the reality is that the social and digital are hard to separate. Therefore, I use the term ‘socio-digital inequalities’ instead of digital inequalities or divides.
• Part of this disconnect stems from the lack of understanding among digital inequalities practitioners and scholars about debates that traditional inequalities scholars have engaged with for decades.
• explanations with micro (or individual) drivers of inequality by examining everyday contexts and realities.