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Everything about Digital divide
Inequality of access to information and communication technologies
Digital divide is inequitable access to and use of digital technology, encompassing four interrelated dimensions: motivational, material, skills, and usage access. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Digital divideA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The digital divide: A review and future research agendaInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Stuck in the shallow endThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Reconceptualizing the Digital DivideCited 308 times
- Go sideways: Global digital divideA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Digital divide in the United StatesA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies (and the computer literacy to use them) and those without it.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide
Reducing the Digital Divide
Digital Divide in Tourism
The Digital Divide
The Digital Divide
Rethinking the Digital Divide
Tackling Africa’s digital divide
The Global Digital Divide
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Stuck in the shallow endJane Margolis · 2008- 📕Digital DivideMassimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert · 2013
Communication and Information Technologies AnnualLaura Robinson, Shelia R. Cotten · 2015
New NoiseSimon Lindgren · 2013- 📕Theorizing Digital DividesMassimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert · 2017
- 📕Falling through the netUnited States. National Telecommunications and Information Administration · 1995
Technology and Social InclusionMark Warschauer · 2003
Third Digital DivideMassimo Ragnedda · 2017
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