ISBN:
9780262287029
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (376 pages)
Series Statement:
MIT Press Sourcebooks Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The digital divide
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Digital divide -- United States
;
Information technology -- Social aspects -- United States
;
Digital divide ; United States
;
Information technology ; Social aspects ; United States
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Informationstechnik
;
Internet
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
This book presents data supporting the existence of a gap-along racial, economic, ethnic, and education lines-between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I The Set-Up -- 1 Falling through the Net: A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and Urban America -- 2 Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide -- 3 The Evolution of the Digital Divide -- II The Context -- 4 Information Gaps -- 5 Universal Service from the Bottom Up -- 6 Universal Access to Online Services -- 7 Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution -- III The Advocates -- 8 Equality in the Information Age -- 9 The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996 -- 10 The E-rate in America -- 11 Universal Access to Email -- 12 Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use -- IV Reality Check -- 13 Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000 -- 14 The Truth about the Digital Divide -- 15 Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds -- 16 Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide -- 17 This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide -- V What's It All Mean? -- 18 Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure -- 19 Falling for the Gap -- 20 Declare the War Won -- Epilogue -- Source Notes -- Index.
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