Questions of ‘digital divides’ could usefully consider the quantity as well as quality of access, provision and knowledge/skills, and engage users with what makes digital space safe and enjoyable:
I live by myself and I have found so much welcome and needed community during the pandemic with fellow LGBTI+ Elders while participating in the … Social Dance club sessions and the spin-off activity meetings.
(Morag, 64, lesbian, cis woman)
Apart from seeing three friends at the end of last summer, I have either spent all of my time since last March in lockdown with family, or working in Aberdeen during varying levels of restrictions either blocking transport out of the North East, or into the central belt.