The Digital Divide Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?
| Author/creator | Compaine, Benjamin M. Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 340 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile STEAM Monographs D2O |
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| Subjects |
| Series | MIT Press Sourcebooks |
| Summary | Annotation <p>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.</p> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 00048964 |
| ISBN | 9780262531931 |
| ISBN | 0262531933 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262531931 |
| Stock number | 00015994 |
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