{"id":13338,"date":"2021-10-27T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T02:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2021-10-27T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T03:47:21","slug":"becoming-digitally-connected-what-holds-people-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/news\/2021\/10\/27\/becoming-digitally-connected-what-holds-people-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Digitally Connected: What Holds People Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>IN BRIEF | 4 min read<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>In a recent The Straits Times article, Associate Professor Irene Ng (<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/swk\/\">NUS Social Work<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/\">NUS Social Service Research Centre<\/a>), Dr Natalie Pang (<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cnm\/\">NUS Communications and New Media<\/a>) and Professor Lim Sun Sun (Humanities, Arts &amp; Social Sciences, SUTD) discuss the factors that prevent people from using digital services. For lower-income families, sometimes fear gets in the way, on top of cost concerns.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PEOPLE-st-25oct-pA20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click through to read this article.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PEOPLE-st-25oct-pA20.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Becoming-Digitally-Connected_2021.10.27-1024x720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/opinion\/becoming-digitally-connected-what-holds-people-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Straits Times<\/em>, 25 October 2021<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><em>This story first appeared in<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/opinion\/becoming-digitally-connected-what-holds-people-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Straits Times<\/a> on 25 October 2021.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent The Straits Times article, Associate Professor Irene Ng (NUS Social Work &#038; NUS Social Service Research Centre), Dr Natalie Pang (NUS Communications and New Media) and Professor Lim Sun Sun (Humanities, Arts &#038; Social Sciences, SUTD) discuss the factors that prevent people from using digital services. For lower-income families, sometimes fear gets in the way, on top of cost concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":13343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,27,120,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications-and-new-media","category-news","category-social-work","category-visible"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13350,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions\/13350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}