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Evaluating a digital inclusion intervention for parents in poverty: results from qualitative research Cover

Evaluating a digital inclusion intervention for parents in poverty: results from qualitative research

Open Access
|Dec 2025

Authors

Lilian Boerkamp

l.g.p.boerkamp@utwente.nl

is a PhD Candidate at the department of Communication Science at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on digital inclusion in relation to poverty. The aim of her PhD trajectory is to gain deeper insight into the dynamics surrounding digital inclusion and poverty, and to unfold how digital inclusion support may contribute to improving the societal positions of those facing financial deprivation

Alexander Van Deursen

a.j.a.m.vandeursen@utwente.nl

is a Professor of Communication Science at the University of Twente, Chair of the Department and Director of the Centre for Digital Inclusion. His research focuses on digital inequality in contemporary society. He holds visiting scholar positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Arizona State University

Ester Van Laar

e.vanlaar@utwente.nl

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Twente. In her research she combines various quantitative and qualitative research methods to identify and measure digital skills youth and working professionals need to learn in the 21st century

Alex Van der Zeeuw

a.vanderzeeuw@utwente.nl

is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. As a trained sociologist working at the Communication Science department, he does figurational research on our digitally mediated reality; how people live with data, generate data, and behave according to the data they receive. Alex has published mostly in digital inequality research, on digital skills relating to the internet and the internet of things, risks, and education and culture. He has an interest in innovative methodologies, such as mixing ethnographic research and big data, or other naturally occurring data that makes generative sites of big data meaningful

Shenja Van der Graaf

shenja.vandergraaf@utwente.nl

is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente at the department of Communication Science. Her work focuses on moments of transition and the dynamics that accompany them associated with the digital society, particularly, human (online) culture. Currently, her research is developing at the intersection of ICTs, digital and cumulative culture, and neuroscience
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54431/jsi.869 | Journal eISSN: 1876-8830
Language: English
Page range: 3 - 23
Published on: Dec 3, 2025
Published by: Hanze University of Applied Sciences / NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2025 Lilian Boerkamp, Alexander Van Deursen, Ester Van Laar, Alex Van der Zeeuw, Shenja Van der Graaf, published by Hanze University of Applied Sciences / NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.