Digital inclusion : an international comparative analysis /

This collection examines the risks and social opportunities created by the growth of information and communication technologies. In particular, the contributors analyze how digital inclusion is affected by the social and cultural contexts of access around the world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ragnedda, Massimo, 1976- (Editor ), Mutsvairo, Bruce, 1979- (Editor ), Goggin, Gerard, 1964- (author of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018.]
Colección:Communication, globalization, and cultural identity
Temas:
Internet > Social aspects.
Online social networks.
Social integration.
Internet > Aspect social.
Réseaux sociaux (Internet)
Intégration sociale.
COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS > Reference.
Internet > Social aspects
Online social networks
Social integration
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: digital inclusion: empowering people through information and communication technologies (ICTS) / Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo
  • Digital inclusion in advanced countries. Reducing and preventing digital discrimination: digital inclusion strategies in Europe / Massimo Ragnedda
  • Not so ubiquitous: digital inclusion and older adults in Australia / Sue Malta and Raelene Wilding
  • Digital inclusion in international perspective: an asset-based approach to digital inclusion research in t US context / Bianca C. Reisdorf and Colin Rhinesmith
  • Digital inclusion in BRICS countries. From access to proficiency: reconceptualising digital inclusion in a rural area in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit
  • Mapping the evolutive trajectories of China's digital divide: a longitudinal observation / Jianbin Jin, Fanxin Meng, Anfan Chen, Lin Shi, and Tao Wang
  • Changes in knowledge acquisition according to the proximity with digital media networks / Andrea Limberto
  • Digital inclusion in the Middle East. Digital inclusion in Jordan: opportunities and hurdles / Hanna Kreitem
  • An explanatory analysis of Facebook's effect on social cohesion in Iran / Hamid Abdollahyan and Mahin Sheikh Ansari
  • "Nothing is ever truly new": the persisting digital exclusion in Israel, 2002-2013 / Amit M. Schejter, Orit Ben-Harush, and Noam Tirosh
  • Digital inclusion in Africa. LCT and development: narrowing the digital divide and the knowledge gap of ICT users in Cameroon and Ghana / Kehbuma Langmia and Christiana Hammond
  • Kenya's digital divide: challenged, evolving, and persistent / Norbert Wildermuth
  • Afterword, why digital inclusion now? / Gerard Goggin.

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