Digital Mutation, a Result of Motivation and Resilience. Stolen Babies in Catalunya

This paper bridges the concepts of digital literacy and digital inclusion, and introduces digital mutation following an examination of 20 families (older adults) from the Stolen Babies organization in Catalonia, looking for their stolen babies and advocating for social justice. The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which digital technologies offer new opportunities to improve people‟s social lives, transcending barriers and experiencing, in this particular case, a digital mutation. The interaction between factors of social and cultural differentiation for this population gives rise to specific kinds of choices and life changes. This exploratory study argues that digital mutation responds to the interaction of this population‟s social factors and digital experiences by combining new social experience / new digital actions and is framed within two parallels: the motivation experienced as a group which makes them transcend barriers and consequently they put digital literacy into practice; the second parallel is between resilience -that empowers them, gives them confidence- also represented as a digital inclusion. The sum of both parallels are the factors that predefine in this population a digital mutation.