Description
This handbook provides an authoritative and cutting-edge overview of current research and trends related to the emerging field of digital technology and social work.
This book is divided into six sections:
- Reframing Social Work in a Digital Society
- Shaping a Science of Social Work in the Digital Society
- Digital Social Work in Practice
- The Ethics of Digital Social Work
- Digital Social Work and the Digitalization of Welfare Institutions: Opportunities, Challenges and Country Cases
- Digital Social Work: Future Challenges, Directions and Transformations
This book, comprised of 40 specially commissioned chapters, explores the main intersections between social work theory and practice in an increasingly digitized world. Bringing a critical focus to how social work as a profession is adapting exponentially to embrace the benefits of technology, it gives specific consideration to the digitalization of the social work profession, including the ways in which social workers are using different forms of technology to provide effective services and innovative practice responses.
With chapters on big data, digital archiving, e-citizenship and inclusion, gerontechnology, children and technology, and data ethics, this book will be of interest to all social work scholars, students and professionals as well as those working in science and technology studies more broadly.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Digital Social Work – Reshaping Social Work Practice in the 21st Century
Antonio López Peláez and Gloria Kirwan
Part 1: Reframing Social Work in a Digital Society
Chapter Two – Digital Social Work: The Opportunity of Digitalisation. A Meta-Analysis
Antonio López Peláez, Amaya Erro-Garcés and Raquel Pérez García
Chapter Three – Social Work: Information and Communication Technologies: Development and Innovation
Jorge M. L. Ferreira
Chapter Four – Photovoice in the Time of Digital Social Work
Eduardo Marques, Jose Luis Fernández-Pacheco Sáez and Mieko Yoshihama
Chapter Five – Networked Relationships: Relationship-Based Social Work Practice in the Digital Era
Gloria Kirwan
Chapter Six – Technology Tools for Convivial Communities
Walter LaMendola and Neil Ballantyne
Chapter Seven – Collective Social Work and Social Movements in the Digital Age
Enrique Pastor Seller and Maria Rosa Herrera Gutierrez
Part 2: Shaping a Science of Social Work in the Digital Society
Chapter Eight – Sociocybernetics for Digital Social Work: A Second Order Approach
Patricia E. Almaguer-Kalixto and Chaime Marcuello-Servós
Chapter Nine – Big Social Data and Social Networking Sites: Opportunities for Social Work Research and Practice
Joaquín Castillo de Mesa
Chapter Ten – Analysis of Citizen Interactions on Twitter about Social Services and Covid-19
Alfonso Chaves-Montero
Chapter Eleven – Viral Artifacts: Social Work Responses to COVID-19 Through YouTube as Archive
Tara La Rose
Chapter Twelve – Superdiversity and Digital Social Work
Pablo Álvarez-Pérez
Chapter Thirteen – Social Work Research: Digitising the Critical Incident Technique for the 21st Century using Audio Diaries
Niamh Flanagan
Chapter Fourteen – Digital Social Group Work: Evolution, State of the Art and a Renewed Research Agenda
Andrés Arias Astray, David Alonso González. Linda Vanina Ducca Cisneros and Juan Brea Iglesias
Part 3: Digital Social Work in Practice
Part 3a: Digital Social Work with Client Groups
Chapter Fifteen – Assistive Technologies, Robotics and Gerontological Social work Practice
Naonori Kodate and Sarah Donnelly
Chapter Sixteen – Digital Technology in Statutory Children’s Services
Thomas Mackrill
Chapter Seventeen – The Digitization of Social Work with Vulnerable Children and Older People in the Czech Republic: A Challenge for the Future
Soňa Kalenda, Ivana Kowaliková, Alice Gojová, Adéla Recmanová and Alena Vysloužilová
Chapter Eighteen – Digital social work and disability services
Yolanda María de la Fuente Robles, Mª del Carmen Martin Cano and Enrique García Cortés
Chapter Nineteen – The use of Facebook in social work practice with families: Safeguarding or surveillance?
Liz Beddoe and Tarsem Singh Cooner
Chapter Twenty - Technology and children: a role for social work?
Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin
Part 3b: Digital Social Work in Practice
Chapter Twenty-one – Digital Storytelling in Social Work
Chitat Chan
Chapter Twenty-two – The Interface between Technology and Domestic Violence and Abuse: Challenges & Opportunities for Social Work Practice
Stephanie Holt, Lynne Cahill and Ruth Elliffe
Chapter Twenty-three – The Acceleration of the Implementation of Tele Social Work as a Complementary Intervention Formula: Teleworking, Remote Assistance and Online Home Visiting
Joaquín Castillo de Mesa
Chapter Twenty-four – Technology Bridges Community Social Work and Older People Care in Japan
Ayako Sasaki and Kana Matsuo
Chapter Twenty-five – Social Innovation and Technology for Social Work: A Training and Implementation Experience in Santiago de Chile
Andrés Aparicio Alonso and Paula Miranda Sánchez
Chapter Twenty-six – The Pandemic of Undesired Loneliness: New Strategies from Digital Social Work
Rafael Acebes Valentín, Mª Dolores Muñoz de Dios and Silvia Vázquez González
Chapter Twenty-seven – Social Work Education and Digitalisation: The Classroom in Transition
Julie Byrne
Chapter Twenty-eight – Reflections on Emergency Remote Online Teaching and Learning Group Work Education during Covid-19: South Africa
Roshini Pillay
Part 4: The Ethics of Digital Social Work
Chapter Twenty-nine – Information and Communications Technology in Social Work: Ethical and Risk Management Issues
Frederic G. Reamer
Chapter Thirty – Privacy and ‘Big Data’ in Social Work Research: A Risk-based Approach
Beth Coulthard
Chapter Thirty-one – Artificial Intelligence and Social Work: Contributions to an Ethical Artificial Intelligence at the Service of People
Esther Raya Diez
Chapter Thirty-two – Ethics and Technology in Emergency Situations
Allan Barsky
Chapter Thirty-three – Mechanisms of Power in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Privacy and Professional Boundaries in Social Work Practice
Gloria Kirwan and Julie Byrne
Part 5: Digital Social Work and the Digitalization of Welfare Institutions: Opportunities, Challenges and Country Cases
Chapter Thirty-four – Using Technologies as Allies in Social Work: the Chilean Experience of Reconectando
Jorge Farah Ojeda and Sofía Cillero Fuenzalida
Chapter Thirty-five – Integrating Social Work Practice and Technology Competencies: A comparative example between USA and Spain
Domingo Carbonero Muñoz, Mioara Diaconu and Laura Racovita
Chapter Thirty-six – Participatory Evaluation in Social Organisations Dealing with Emergency Situations: A Digital Social Work Perspective
Ángel De-Juanas Oliva, Francisco Javier García-Castilla and Raquel Pelta
Chapter Thirty-seven – Digital Social Work in Ordinary and Extraordinary Times: the Italian Experience
Roberta T. Di Rosa and Mara Sanfelici
Chapter Thirty-eight – Digital Social Work and Social Protection Programme: Conditional Cash Transfer in Colombia
César Sánchez Álvarez
Part 6: Future Challenges, Directions and Transformations
Chapter Thirty-nine – ‘Harness Technology for Social Good’: A Grand Challenge for Social Work
Melanie Sage and Jonathan Singer
Chapter Forty – Digital Social Work: Support at Your Fingertips
Tiffany Luo and Adrian Aguilera
Chapter Forty-one – Digital People Production in Social Work
Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed
Chapter Forty-two - The Future of Digital Social Work: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
Antonio López Peláez and Gloria Kirwan
