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The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society
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A Framework to Understand the Digital Divide Motivational Access Material Access Skills Access Usage Access in the Information Society Inequality in the Network Society The Stakes: Participation or Exclusion Policy Perspective Perspective Reference Index as discussed by the authorsAbstract:
Introduction A Framework to Understand the Digital Divide Motivational Access Material Access Skills Access Usage Access Inequality in the Information Society Inequality in the Network Society The Stakes: Participation or Exclusion Policy Perspective Reference Indexread more
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Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the “Net Generation”*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on unique data with information about a diverse group of young adults' Internet uses and skills to suggest that even when controlling for Internet access and experiences, people differ in their online abilities and activities.
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Digital divide research, achievements and shortcomings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors made an inventory of 5 years of digital divide research (2000-2005) and focused on three questions: (1) To what type of inequality does the digital divide refer? (2) What is new about the inequality of access to and use of ICTs as compared to other scarce material and immaterial resources? (3) Do new types of inequality exist or rise in the information society?
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Digital natives: where is the evidence?
Ellen Helsper,Rebecca Eynon +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it is possible for adults to become digital natives, especially in the area of learning, by acquiring skills and experience in interacting with information and communication technologies, and that if such a gap does exist, it is definitely possible to close it.
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The digital divide shifts to differences in usage
TL;DR: It is found that people with low levels of education and disabled people are using the Internet for more hours a day in their spare time than higher educated and employed populations and what they are doing online is investigated.
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Internet Skills and the Digital Divide
TL;DR: The results strengthen the findings that the original digital divide of physical internet access has evolved into a divide that includes differences in skills to use the internet.