03063nam 22006135 450 991048421870332120250609110817.09783030490799303049079310.1007/978-3-030-49079-9(CKB)4100000011372944(MiAaPQ)EBC6286287(DE-He213)978-3-030-49079-9(Perlego)3481401(MiAaPQ)EBC6285990(EXLCZ)99410000001137294420200807d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEnhancing Digital Equity Connecting the Digital Underclass /by Massimo Ragnedda1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (114 pages)Palgrave pivot9783030490782 3030490785 1. Theorizing Inequalities -- 2. Old digital inequalities: Digital Divide -- 3. New digital Inequalities: Algorithms divide -- 4. Connecting the digital Underclass -- 5. Conclusions.This book highlights how, in principle, digital technologies present an opportunity to reduce social disparities, tackle social exclusion, enhance social and civil rights, and promote equity. However, to achieve these goals, it is necessary to promote digital equity and connect the digital underclass. The book focuses on how the advent of technologies may become a barrier to social mobility and how, by concentrating resources and wealth in few hands, the digital revolution is giving rise to the digital oligarchy, further penalizing the digital underclass. Socially-disadvantaged people, living at the margins of digital society, are penalized both in terms of accessing-using-benefits (three levels of digital divide) but also in understanding-programming-treatment of new digital technologies (three levels of algorithms divide). The advent and implementation of tools that rely on algorithms to make decisions has further penalized specific social categories by normalizing inequalities in the name of efficiency and rationalization.Palgrave pivot.CommunicationDigital mediaTechnologySociological aspectsMedia and CommunicationDigital and New MediaScience, Technology and SocietyCommunication.Digital media.TechnologySociological aspects.Media and Communication.Digital and New Media.Science, Technology and Society.303.4833303.4833Ragnedda Massimoauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut501811MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484218703321Enhancing Digital Equity2212260UNINA