The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? (MIT Press Sourcebooks)

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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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title: The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? (MIT Press Sourcebooks)
purchase date: 30-08-2006
publisher: The MIT Press
published: 18-06-2001
price: $35.00
pages: 340
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genre: Culture Industrial Technology Technology & Society Social Aspects
fullTitle: The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? (MIT Press Sourcebooks)
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