Digital inclusion : an international comparative analysis /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Ragnedda, Massimo, 1976- (Editor), Mutsvairo, Bruce, 1979- (Editor), Goggin, Gerard, 1964- (author of afterword.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:	Communication, globalization, and cultural identity.
Subjects:	Internet > Social aspects. Online social networks. Social integration. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: digital inclusion: empowering people through information and communication technologies (ICTS) / Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo
Digital inclusion in advanced countries. Reducing and preventing digital discrimination: digital inclusion strategies in Europe / Massimo Ragnedda
Not so ubiquitous: digital inclusion and older adults in Australia / Sue Malta and Raelene Wilding
Digital inclusion in international perspective: an asset-based approach to digital inclusion research in t US context / Bianca C. Reisdorf and Colin Rhinesmith
Digital inclusion in BRICS countries. From access to proficiency: reconceptualising digital inclusion in a rural area in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit
Mapping the evolutive trajectories of China's digital divide: a longitudinal observation / Jianbin Jin, Fanxin Meng, Anfan Chen, Lin Shi, and Tao Wang
Changes in knowledge acquisition according to the proximity with digital media networks / Andrea Limberto
Digital inclusion in the Middle East. Digital inclusion in Jordan: opportunities and hurdles / Hanna Kreitem
An explanatory analysis of Facebook's effect on social cohesion in Iran / Hamid Abdollahyan and Mahin Sheikh Ansari
"Nothing is ever truly new": the persisting digital exclusion in Israel, 2002-2013 / Amit M. Schejter, Orit Ben-Harush, and Noam Tirosh
Digital inclusion in Africa. LCT and development: narrowing the digital divide and the knowledge gap of ICT users in Cameroon and Ghana / Kehbuma Langmia and Christiana Hammond
Kenya's digital divide: challenged, evolving, and persistent / Norbert Wildermuth
Afterword, why digital inclusion now? / Gerard Goggin.