The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? /

Annotation The Digital Divide refers to the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. If we are indeed in an Information Age, then not having access to this information is an economic and social handicap. Some people consider the Digital...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Compaine, Benjamin M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
Colección:MIT Press sourcebooks.
Temas:
Digital divide > United States.
Information technology > Social aspects > United States.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Fossé numérique > États-Unis.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
Digital divide
Information technology > Social aspects
Sociale achterstand.
Informatiemaatschappij.
Internet.
Telecommunicatie.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. The Set-Up : Documenters of the Digital Divide
  • Falling through the Net : A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and Urban America / National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • Falling through the Net : Defining the Digital Divide /
  • National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • The Evolution of the Digital Divide : Examining the Relationship of Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time / Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, and Ann E. Schlosser
  • II. The Context : Background and Texture
  • Information Gaps : Myth or Reality? / Benjamin M. Compaine
  • Universal Service from the Bottom Up : A Study of Telephone Penetration in Camden, New Jersey / Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement
  • Universal Access to Online Services : An Examination of the Issue / Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub
  • Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution / Milton L. Mueller
  • III. The Advocates : Raising the Stakes
  • Equality in the Information Age / William E. Kennard
  • The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996 : Economic Reality versus Public Policy
  • The First Triennial Review, 1999 / Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman
  • The E-rate in America : A Tale of Four Cities / Andy Carvin, editor, with Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert
  • Universal Access to Email : Feasibility and Societal Implications / Robert H. Anderson [and others]
  • Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use / Marc Lacey
  • IV. Reality Check : Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech Time
  • Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000
  • Internet and Society : A Preliminary Report / Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring
  • The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States / Cheskin Research
  • Survey of Americans on Technology / National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy School of Government
  • The Truth about the Digital Divide / Ekaterina O. Walsh with Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham
  • Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds / Pamela Mendels
  • Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide / John Simons
  • This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide / Timothy Hanrahan
  • V. What's It All Mean?
  • Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure / Jorge Reina Schement
  • Falling for the Gap : Whatever Happened to the Digital Divide? / Adam Clayton Powell III
  • Declare the War Won / Benjamin M. Compaine
  • Epilogue / Benjamin M. Compaine.

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