Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society - Image 1

£71.99

Emerald Publishing Limited Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society

Name: Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society
Brand: Emerald Publishing Limited
Price: 57.56 GBP
Availability: InStock

Computing & Internet

Price History & Forecast

Last 40 days • 40 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 40 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £58 (23 days, 57.5%)

Price range: £58 - £72

Price levels: 2 different prices over 40 days

Description

This book critically reviews existing digital divide research and challenges its core thesis, which posits unequal Internet access as a newly formed source of social disadvantage. The author begins by introducing the building blocks of the information society theory. The book goes on to present a systematic overview of digital divide research - its development, arguments attesting to the social gravity of the digital divide, and current findings on the uneven diffusion and use of the Internet. It evaluates the validity of the theories and concepts associated with digital divide research. The author offers an overview and re-examination of six presumptions and biases found in the prevailing approach to the digital divide. Given that Internet use has, in certain contexts, become an absolute necessity, an alternative approach is proposed, recognizing the indispensability of Internet use as context dependent. The book concludes with a consideration of the implications that this new perspective has for the information society theory and policies as well as for the role of social science in the informatization process.

Product Specifications

Brand: Emerald Publishing Limited
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1787565483
Category: Books > Subjects > Computing & Internet
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 24 September 2018
Listed Since: 02 April 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

Emerald Publishing Limited Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Information Technology and Social Justice

Theorizing Digital Divides (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives (Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development)

Routledge The Digital Divide - Sociology and Internet Inequality

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society

Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society

Bridging the Global Digital Divide

The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality: 4 (Connected Youth and Digital Futures)

Digitalisation and Development: Issues for India and Beyond

Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of e-Inclusion: 195 (Public Administration and Public Policy)

The Smart Revolution Towards the Sustainable Digital Society: Beyond the Era of Convergence (Advances in Information, Communication and Entertainment Markets series)

Bridging the Education Divide Using Social Technologies: Explorations in Rural India

Internationalizing the Internet: The Co-evolution of Influence and Technology (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation series)

The Global Digital Divides: Explaining Change (Progress in IS)

Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues (Premier Reference Source)

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society

Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society

The Internet and Social Inequalities (Sociology Re-Wired)

The Internet and Social Inequalities (Sociology Re-Wired)

Springer - Past, Present and Future of Research in Info Society

Examining the Roles of IT And Social Media in Democratic Development and Social Change (Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development)

Beyond Technology: Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture

Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era

Introduction to Digital Media