Our daily lives have become so immersed in digital Information and Communications
Technology that we rarely stop to think about it. We know much about the benefits brought …

The topic of this book, the digital divide, refers to the unequal distribution of resources
associated with information and communication technologies, between countries and within …

This article examines relationships between economic and social inequality and digitally
mediated communication. Differences between instrumental and critical approaches in the …

The development and spread of digital media across the world has culminated in the
centrality of these media in the social, political and economic activities of people and …

The powerful role of information and communication technology (ICT) in social and
economic development has led many to ponder the consequences of unequal access to it …

During the 1990s, researchers and policy makers began discussing the presence of a so-
called 'digital divide,'a distinction of people who do and do not have access to information …

Internet diffusion has prompted research into differences in internet access, use and
consequences. Exploiting the full potential of the ongoing digital transformation in all …

From the Publisher: Information and Communication Technologies-Visions and Realities
illuminates the social and economic implications of advances in information and …

The plethora of research on the digital divide has illustrated that in essence the gap between
digital “haves” and “have-nots” is a complex phenomenon with local and global …

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the attention given to the socalled digital divide
in developed countries gradually decreased. The common opinion among policy makers …