The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? /

The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? / / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine.

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Compaine, Benjamin M.
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Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:MIT Press sourcebooks.
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Physical Description:xvi, 357 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: I The Set-Up: Documenters of the Digital Divide 1
  • 1 Falling through the Net: A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and
  • Urban America 7
  • National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • 2 Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide 17
  • National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • 3 The Evolution of the Digital Divide: Examining the Relationship of
  • Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time 47
  • Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, and Ann E. Schlosser
  • I The Context: Background and Texture 99
  • 4 Information Gaps: Myth or Reality? 105
  • Benjamin M. Compaine
  • 5 Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Study of Telephone
  • Penetration in Camden, New Jersey 119
  • Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement
  • 6 Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of the
  • Issue 147
  • Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub
  • 7 Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution 179
  • Milton L. Mueller
  • III The Advocates: Raising the Stakes 189
  • 8 Equality in the Information Age 195
  • William E. Kennard
  • 9 The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996:
  • Economic Reality versus Public Policy 199
  • The First Triennial Review, 1999
  • Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman
  • 10 The E-rate in America: A Tale of Four Cities 223
  • Andy Carvin, editor, with Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert
  • 11 Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal
  • Implications 243
  • Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger
  • M. Mitchell
  • 12 Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use 263
  • Marc Lacey
  • IV Reality Check: Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech
  • Time 265
  • 13 Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000 269
  • Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report 269
  • Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring
  • The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States 272
  • Cheskin Research
  • Survey of Americans on Technology 274
  • National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy
  • School of Government
  • 14 The Truth about the Digital Divide 279
  • Ekaterina O. Walsh with Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham
  • 15 Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds 285
  • Pamela Mendels
  • 16 Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide 289
  • John Simons
  • 17 This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide 293
  • Timothy Hanrahan
  • V What's It All Mean? 299
  • 18 Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure 303
  • Jorge Reina Schement
  • 19 Falling for the Gap: Whatever Happened to the Digital
  • Divide? 309
  • Adam Clayton Powell III
  • 20 Declare the War Won 315
  • Benjamin M. Compaine
  • Epilogue 337
  • Benjamin M. Compaine
  • Source Notes 341
  • Contributors 343
  • Index 345.

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