The picture above is a rough sketch of digital inclusion (we’ll return to this below.) In Introduction to Civic Media, last week we read several texts about digital inequality. We traced the transformation of this conversation since the 1990s, when many still talked about a binary ‘Digital Divide,’ to the […]
Daily Archives: September 23, 2013
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Some parts of the world have already moved on from solving the problems of digital divide of ‘have’ and ‘have-nots’ to solving problems of digital inequality. Uzbekistan, however, is a place where both digital divide and inequality are still evident, with purposefully constructed limitations like censorship and surveillance on top […]
Liveblog of Patrick Sharkey’s presentation to the Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series at Harvard on September 23, 2013. Patrick Sharkey is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and affiliate of the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. His research looks at stratification and mobility with […]