The digital divide facing a crisis or creating a myth?
Annotation The Digital Divide refers to the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. If we are indeed in an Information Age, then not having access to this information is an economic and social handicap. Some people consider the Digital...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
MIT Press
2001
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| Series: | MIT Press sourcebooks
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Annotation The Digital Divide refers to the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. If we are indeed in an Information Age, then not having access to this information is an economic and social handicap. Some people consider the Digital Divide to be a national crisis, while others consider it an over-hyped nonissue. This book presents data supporting the existence of such a divide in the 1990s along racial, economic, ethnic, and education lines. But it also presents evidence that by 2000 the gaps are rapidly closing without substantive public policy initiatives and spending. Together, the contributions serve as a sourcebook on this controversial issue |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 357 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780585386638 0585386633 0262287021 9780262287029 |