Digital Media Usage of Homeless People in Berlin 2022

We report findings from a multilingual, interviewer-assisted survey (n=138) conducted across five homelessness day centres in March-April 2022. The survey constituted one part of a broader mixed methods research project on homelessness and digital media usage in Berlin. Any user of these day centres who had fallen into FEANTSA ETHOS categories 1-8 and 11-12 (FEANTSA, 2017a) for at least one night in the last 12 months was eligible for participation. The survey instrument, co-developed with unhoused collaborators and informed by ethnographic fieldwork, adapts established constructs from digital divide research for the context of homelessness, draws on previous research on the intersection of homelessness and digital media, and adds items specific to the Berlin/Germany context.