2. Implications of Infrastructure and Technological Change for Lifestyles in Siberia

This chapter will explore how the changing habits in mobility and use of media technology have contributed to the pluralisation of lifestyles in Siberia, and how these new technologies are being used to express new social disparities. We aim to show how technological changes have directly influenced...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zuev, Dennis, Otto Habeck, Joachim
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Open Book Publishers 2020
Subjects:
JHM
Online Access:http://books.openedition.org/obp/11157
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Summary:This chapter will explore how the changing habits in mobility and use of media technology have contributed to the pluralisation of lifestyles in Siberia, and how these new technologies are being used to express new social disparities. We aim to show how technological changes have directly influenced people’s lives in Siberia. The chapter has seven sections. After a brief overview of the last three decades’ infrastructural and related social changes, we will provide our own biographical experi.