Bridging the divide: Uniting rural and urban landscapes for conservation

Bridging the Rural Digital Divide

Understanding the Rural – Urban Digital Divide

This paper explains the current ‘digital divide’ in internet use between rural and urban areas using a Logit adoption model with data collected from the August 2000 Current Population Survey. A non-linear decomposition shows that rural – urban household attribute differences account for 66 percent of the digital divide, while place based differences account for the remaining 34 percent of the d...

Bridging the Disciplinary Divide

Academic disciplines see research questions through the biases created by their presuppositions and preferred methods. Political science and communication are no different. In the past, political scientists more often focused on outcomes and the social and economic judgments that seemed to shape them while communication researchers have focused more intensely on the structure and content of the...

Bridging the Digital Divide: Report on Focus Groups with Low-income Urban and Rural Residents in Pennsylvania

In recent years, the growth in technology and new media has created a communications revolution that allows people instant and equal access to previously unavailable or difficult-to-find information. Despite this proliferation,, however, there remains a gap, a "Digital Divide", between Americans who have access to technology and those who do not. According to the most recent report from the Dep...

The Political Economy of China’s Rural- Urban Divide

China’s economic inequalities between rural and urban regions were high but stable during the centrally planned period. Since the inception of reforms in 1978, the disparities have exhibited a marked cyclical pattern: the declines in early years were followed by a period of increases and then by renewed declines. We find that the sharp sectoral divide in the planning episode was a result of ind...