Theorizing Digital Divides

ISBN-13: 9780367890254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Massimo Ragnedda; Glenn W. Muschert

Opis

This volume examines and explains the phenomenon of digital divides and digital inequalities from a theoretical perspective. Theorizing Digital Divides explores theories from diverse perspectives within the social sciences and presents clear examples of how each theory is applied in digital divide research.

Spis treści

Introduction: Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert

Section 1: Using classical social theories to understand digital divide

Chapter 1. Glenn W. Muschert and Ryan Gunderson, The Sociology of Simmel and Digital Divides: Information, Value, Exchange, and Sociation in the Networked Environment

Chapter 2: Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu, Social capital and the three levels of digital divide. massimo.ragnedda@northumbria.ac.uk;

Chapter 3: Tomohisa Hirata, Do contemporary media technologies and the architects of them fill the role of the psychoanalyst for the users of them?

Chapter 4: Barbara Barbosa Neves & Geoffrey Mead, The interpretive and ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a Weberian perspective

Section 2: Associative and communicative perspectives

Chapter 5: Gerard Goggin. ‘Disability and Digital Inequalities: Rethinking Digital Divides with Disability Theory’.

Chapter 6: Lorenzo Dalvit. The materiality of mobile phones and visual impairment: accessible, accessibility and access devices

Chapter 7: Susan Kretchmer Theorizing Digital Divides Through the Lens of Social Construction of Technology, Knowledge Gap, and Social Identity Construction

Chapter 8: John Haffner, Connection in Divided Space: Theorizing the Geographies of the Digital Divide

Chapter 9: Eva Klinkisch, Anne Suphan. A "recognitional perspective" on the 21st century digital divide

Section 3: Critical and alternative perspectives.

Chapter 10: Last Moyo Rethinking the network society: A decolonial and border gnosis of the digital divide in Africa

Chapter 11: Duygu Özsoy. Digital Divide in Turkey as a non- Western Country

Chapter 12: Citt Williams, Tania Gupta, Marilyn Wallace, Theorising Online Representation and th

O autorze

Massimo Ragnedda is a Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication at Northumbria University, Newcastle.

Glenn W. Muschert is a Professor of Sociology and Social Justice Studies at Miami University, Ohio, USA.