The digital border: Mobility beyond territorial and symbolic divides

Information Societies and Digital Divides

The book argues ICT are part of the set of goods and services that determine quality of life, social inequality and the chances for economic development. Therefore understanding the digital divide demands a broader discussion of the place of ICT within each society and in the international system. The author argues against the perspectives that either isolates ICT from other basic social goods ...

Digital divides in the Mediterranean

This exploratory paper attempts to describe the status of the international digital divide in the Mediterranean area. To do so, it has assembled data on the level of Internet penetration in the Union for the Mediterranean (UM), Some non-littoral UM states were included for purposes of comparison, as were a number of EU non-UM states. Finally, a small number of non UM, non EU, OECD members were ...

The Gaps Between The Digital Divides

“The ‘digital divide’ is real. It is actually several gaps in one: a technological divide in infrastructure, with 70 percent of the world’s Internet users living in the 24 richest countries, which contain just 16 percent of the world’s people; a content divide, with nearly 70 percent of the world’s Websites in English /../ and a gender divide, with women and girls in many countries, rich and po...

American Digital Divides : Generation , Education , Gender , and Ethnicity in American Digital Divides

Through increasing access to knowledge and facilitating widespread discourse, information and communication technology (ICT) is believed to hold the potential to level many societal barriers. Using national probability samples of United States adults from 1983 to 2006, I examine how gender, ethnicity, and education interacted with generation to influence computer ownership and Internet use. Nar...

Digital Divides in the Knowledge Society