The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? / / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 357 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 303.48/33
• Soggetto topico: Digital divide - United States; Information technology - Social aspects - United States
• Altri autori: CompaineBenjamin M
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-342) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: I The Set-Up: Documenters of the Digital Divide 1 -- 1 Falling through the Net: A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and -- Urban America 7 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 2 Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide 17 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 3 The Evolution of the Digital Divide: Examining the Relationship of -- Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time 47 -- Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, and Ann E. Schlosser -- I The Context: Background and Texture 99 -- 4 Information Gaps: Myth or Reality? 105 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- 5 Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Study of Telephone -- Penetration in Camden, New Jersey 119 -- Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement -- 6 Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of the -- Issue 147 -- Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub -- 7 Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution 179 -- Milton L. Mueller -- III The Advocates: Raising the Stakes 189 -- 8 Equality in the Information Age 195 -- William E. Kennard -- 9 The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: -- Economic Reality versus Public Policy 199 -- The First Triennial Review, 1999 -- Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman -- 10 The E-rate in America: A Tale of Four Cities 223 -- Andy Carvin, editor, with Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert -- 11 Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal -- Implications 243 -- Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger -- M. Mitchell -- 12 Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use 263 -- Marc Lacey -- IV Reality Check: Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech -- Time 265 -- 13 Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000 269 -- Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report 269 -- Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring -- The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States 272 -- Cheskin Research -- Survey of Americans on Technology 274 -- National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy -- School of Government -- 14 The Truth about the Digital Divide 279 -- Ekaterina O. Walsh with Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham -- 15 Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds 285 -- Pamela Mendels -- 16 Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide 289 -- John Simons -- 17 This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide 293 -- Timothy Hanrahan -- V What's It All Mean? 299 -- 18 Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure 303 -- Jorge Reina Schement -- 19 Falling for the Gap: Whatever Happened to the Digital -- Divide? 309 -- Adam Clayton Powell III -- 20 Declare the War Won 315 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Epilogue 337 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Source Notes 341 -- Contributors 343 -- Index 345.
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The digital divide
• ISBN: 1-282-10025-4; 9786612100253; 0-262-28702-1; 0-585-38663-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779845503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: MIT Press sourcebooks.