Digital Inclusion

An International Comparative Analysis
Herausgeber: Ragnedda, Massimo; Mutsvairo, Bruce

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection examines the risks and social opportunities created by the growth of information and communication technologies. In particular, the contributors analyze how digital inclusion is affected by the social and cultural contexts of access around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781498562126
• ISBN-10: 1498562124
• Artikelnr.: 52640873

Autorenporträt

Massimo Ragnedda is senior lecturer of mass communication at Northumbria University. Bruce Mutsvairo is associate professor in the School of Communication of the University of Technology Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Digital Inclusion: Empowering People through Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs), Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo
Part I: Digital Inclusion in Advanced Countries
Chapter 1: Reducing and Preventing Digital Discrimination: Digital
Inclusion Strategies in Europe, Massimo Ragnedda
Chapter 2: Not So Ubiquitous: Digital Inclusion and Older Adults in
Australia, Sue Malta and Raelene Wilding
Chapter 3: Digital Inclusion in International Perspective: An Asset-Based
Approach to Digital Inclusion Research in the US Context, Bianca C.
Reisdorf and Colin Rhinesmith
Part II: Digital Inclusion in BRICS Countries
Chapter 4: From Access to Proficiency: Reconceptualising Digital Inclusion
in a Rural Area in South Africa, Lorenzo Dalvit
Chapter 5: Mapping the Evolutive Trajectories of China's Digital Divide: A
Longitudinal Observation, Jianbin Jin, Fanxin Meng, Anfan Chen, Lin Shi,
and Tao Wang
Chapter 6: Changes in Knowledge Acquisition According to the Proximity with
Digital Media Networks, Andrea Limberto
Part III: Digital Inclusion in the Middle East
Chapter 7: Digital Inclusion in Jordan: Opportunities and Hurdles, Hanna
Kreitem
Chapter 8: An Explanatory Analysis of Facebook's Effect on Social Cohesion
in Iran, Hamid Abdollahyan and Mahin Sheikh Ansari
Chapter 9: "Nothing Is Ever Truly New": The Persisting Digital Exclusion in
Israel, 2002-2013, Amit M. Schejter, Orit Ben-Harush, and Noam Tirosh
Part IV: Digital Inclusion in Africa
Chapter 10: ICT and Development: Narrowing the Digital Divide and the
Knowledge Gap of ICT Users in Cameroon and Ghana, Kehbuma Langmia and
Christiana Hammond
Chapter 11: Kenya's Digital Divide: Challenged, Evolving, and Persistent,
Norbert Wildermuth
Afterword, Why Digital Inclusion Now? Gerard Goggin