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Digital Inclusion in Library Context: A Perspective from Users with Print Disability
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The overall analysis shows that digital inclusion would be more meaningful if it involved providing content in alternative formats and empowering users to make informed choices.Abstract:
Digital inclusion is a strategy pursued to foster social inclusion of those who have been sidelined from the mainstream of information society due to lack of access to digital technologies and the ...read more
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Universal access in the information society
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Defining, evaluating, and achieving accessible library resources: A review of theories and methods
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Do digital devices enhance teenagers’ recreational reading engagement? Issues for library policy from a recent study in two Australian states
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Public Librarians' Adoption of Technology in Two Southeastern States
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Analyzing the impact of technology incentives on community digital inclusion using structural equation modeling
TL;DR: In this article , the authors assess whether technological incentives inspire communities in the process of digital inclusion and assess five dimensions: technology incentives, technology utilization, searching skills, social integration, and capabilities.
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Specific reading disability (dyslexia): what have we learned in the past four decades?
TL;DR: Evidence is presented in support of the idea that many poor readers are impaired because of inadequate instruction or other experiential factors, and Hypothesized deficits in general learning abilities and low-level sensory deficits have weak validity as causal factors in specific reading disability.
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Technology and Social Inclusion. Rethinking the Digital Divide
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Universal access in the information society
TL;DR: The accessibility, usability, and, ultimately, acceptability of Information Society Technologies by anyone, anywhere, at anytime, and through any media and device is addressed.
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From the ’Digital Divide’ to Digital Inequality: Studying Internet Use as Penetration Increases
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that as Internet penetration increases, students of inequality of access to the new information technologies should shift their attention from the "digital divide" - inequality between "haves" and "have-nots" differentiated by dichotomous measures of access or use of the new technologies - to digital inequality, by which they refer not just to differences in access, but also to inequality among persons with formal access.
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Reconceptualizing the digital divide
TL;DR: The concept of a digital divide is examined by introducing problematic examples of community technology projects and analyzing models of technology access, and an alternate concept of technology for social inclusion is suggested.