The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? by Benjamin M. Compaine (Editor), Benjamin M. Compaign (Editor)
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- 375pp
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- ISBN-13: 9780262531931
- Edition Description: New Edition
- Pub. Date: June 2001
- Publisher: MIT Press
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- Pub. Date: June 2001
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 375pp
- Series: MIT Press Sourcebooks Series
- ISBN-13: 9780262531931
- ISBN: 0262531933
- Edition Description: New Edition
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This book presents data supporting the existence of a gap—along racial, economic, ethnic, and education lines—between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not.
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Benjamin M. Compaine is Senior Research Affiliate at the Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the editor of The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? (MIT Press, 2001) and coauthor of Who Owns the Media?
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June 02, 2001: 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.
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