The Digital Divide: Issues, Recommendations and Research

The Digital Divide: Issues, Recommendations and Research
ISBN-10
1536110701
ISBN-13
9781536110708
Series
The Digital Divide
Category
Digital divide
Language
English
Published
2017
Author
Craig S. Landers

Description

The emergence of the Internet as a world wide web in the late 1990s made access to information and knowledge significantly easier. Soon after the Internet started reaching the masses, concerns about its unequal distribution appeared. The digital divide that is manifested in access and usage differences between individuals, groups, regions and even countries is created between those who have access to information and communication technologies and know how to utilise them, and those who do not. Empirical studies supply strong evidence that many of those who are digitally excluded are also socially excluded, i.e., digital inequality is strongly related to economic and social stratification. Specifically, empirical studies have examined the digital divide as reflected in gaps in digital access, digital literacy, digital competence, digital, Internet and computer skills, attitudes towards computer and Internet and digital uses between different population groups. This book further reviews the issues, recommendations and new research on the digital divide.

Get the book

Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Search the book
eBay.com
eBay.com
Search the book

Other editions

Similar books

  • Internet Trends in New Zealand, 2007-2013
    By Andy Gibson, C. Crothers, Philippa Karen Smith

    Between 2007 and 2013, around 6000 surveys have been completed. This report reviews changes over the period 2007-2013, reporting key trends and investigating how internet usage and its effects vary across major social groupings.

  • Internet Trends in New Zealand, 2007-2015
    By C. Crothers, Allan Bell, Melissa Miller

    Internet Trends in New Zealand, 2007-2015

  • Internet Research Annual
    Internet Research Annual
    By Mia Consalvo, Kate O'Riordan

    Writing Space : Computers , Hypertext and the Remediation of Print ( 2nd edition ) . Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum . Freadman , A. ( 2002 ) . Uptake . In R. Coe , L. Lingard & T. Teslenko ( Eds . ) , The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre ...

  • Digital Government in Chile: Improving Public Service Design and Delivery

    The e-government era saw efforts to move government services online, automate internal processes and reduce administrative overheads for the public.

  • The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online
    The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online
    By Brendesha M. Tynes, Safiya Umoja Noble

    This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Internet studies, library and information studies, communication, sociology, and psychology.

  • Internet Research Annual
    Internet Research Annual
    By Mia Consalvo, Matthew Allen

    This collection brings together the most interesting and outstanding papers from the Internet Research Conference held in Toronto in 2003.