From Digital Divide To Digital Opportunity

Author : Appu Kuttan
Publisher : R & L Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity written by Appu Kuttan and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the major issues surrounding the digital divide debate from a historical, political, and global perspective, this comprehensive book offers potential model approaches and country-by-country analysis. Unique in scope and structure, it is both a policy guide and reference book, providing solutions and resources that will help build a community of interest and foster the exchange of information and best practices.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264187766
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooling for Tomorrow Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents analysis of the "learning digital divide" in different countries - developed and developing - and the policies and specific innovations designed to bridge it.

Author : Jan van Dijk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509534466
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Digital Divide written by Jan van Dijk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without – has persisted for close to twenty-five years. In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality and what we can do to tackle it. Through an accessible framework based on empirical research, he explores the motivations and challenges of seeking access and the development of requisite digital skills. He addresses key questions such as: Does digital inequality reduce or reinforce existing, traditional inequalities? Does it create new, previously unknown social inequalities? While digital inequality affects all aspects of society and the problem is here to stay, Van Dijk outlines policies we can put in place to mitigate it. The Digital Divide is required reading for students and scholars of media, communication, sociology, and related disciplines, as well as for policymakers.

Author : Karen Mossberger
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262633531
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Citizenship written by Karen Mossberger and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-10-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and economic opportunity finds that technology use matters in wages and income and civic participation and voting. Just as education has promoted democracy and economic growth, the Internet has the potential to benefit society as a whole. Digital citizenship, or the ability to participate in society online, promotes social inclusion. But statistics show that significant segments of the population are still excluded from digital citizenship. The authors of this book define digital citizens as those who are online daily. By focusing on frequent use, they reconceptualize debates about the digital divide to include both the means and the skills to participate online. They offer new evidence (drawn from recent national opinion surveys and Current Population Surveys) that technology use matters for wages and income, and for civic engagement and voting. Digital Citizenship examines three aspects of participation in society online: economic opportunity, democratic participation, and inclusion in prevailing forms of communication. The authors find that Internet use at work increases wages, with less-educated and minority workers receiving the greatest benefit, and that Internet use is significantly related to political participation, especially among the young. The authors examine in detail the gaps in technological access among minorities and the poor and predict that this digital inequality is not likely to disappear in the near future. Public policy, they argue, must address educational and technological disparities if we are to achieve full participation and citizenship in the twenty-first century.

Author : Kim Andreasson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482216604
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Divides written by Kim Andreasson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the current state of digital divides, ranging from global

Author : Pippa Norris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521002233
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Divide written by Pippa Norris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is widespread concern that the Internet is exacerbating inequalities between the information rich and poor.

Author : Karen Mossberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199812934
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Cities written by Karen Mossberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and economic opportunity finds that technology use matters in wages and income and civic participation and voting.

Author : Steven E. E. Fitch Mba
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430305819
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Divide written by Steven E. E. Fitch Mba and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is experiencing a widening gap between those with skills and access to information via computers and those without such access. With the best economic opportunities available only to those who are skilled in technology, this Digital Divide has potentially hazardous consequences to the economic and social health of America. Hence, we need to resolve this problem right away. . .

Author : Karen Mossberger
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589014817
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Inequality written by Karen Mossberger and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That there is a "digital divide"—which falls between those who have and can afford the latest in technological tools and those who have neither in our society—is indisputable. Virtual Inequality redefines the issue as it explores the cascades of that divide, which involve access, skill, political participation, as well as the obvious economics. Computer and Internet access are insufficient without the skill to use the technology, and economic opportunity and political participation provide primary justification for realizing that this inequality is a public problem and not simply a matter of private misfortune. Defying those who say the divide is growing smaller, this volume, based on a unique national survey that includes data from over 1800 respondents in low-income communities, shows otherwise. In addition to demonstrating why disparities persist in such areas as technological abilities, the survey also shows that the digitally disadvantaged often share many of the same beliefs as their more privileged counterparts. African-Americans, for instance, are even more positive in their attitudes toward technology than whites are in many respects, contrary to conventional wisdom. The rigorous research on which the conclusions are based is presented accessibly and in an easy-to-follow manner. Not content with analysis alone, nor the untangling of the complexities of policymaking, Virtual Inequality views the digital divide compassionately in its human dimensions and recommends a set of practical and common-sense policy strategies. Inequality, even in a virtual form this book reminds us, is unacceptable and a situation that society is compelled to address.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Empowerment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Technological Gap written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Empowerment and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: