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      Theorizing Digital Divides book

      Edited ByRagnedda Massimo, Glenn W. Muschert
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 4 October 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315455334
      Pages 218
      eBook ISBN 9781315455334
      Subjects Humanities, Law, Social Sciences
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      Massimo, R., & Muschert, G.W. (Eds.). (2017). Theorizing Digital Divides (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315455334

      ABSTRACT

      Although discussion of the digital divide is a relatively new phenomenon, social inequality is a deeply entrenched part of our current social world and is now reproduced in the digital sphere. Such inequalities have been described in multiple traditions of social thought and theoretical approaches. To move forward to a greater understanding of the nuanced dynamics of digital inequality, we need the theoretical lenses to interpret the meaning of what has been observed as digital inequality.

      This volume examines and explains the phenomenon of digital divides and digital inequalities from a theoretical perspective. Indeed, with there being a limited amount of theoretical research on the digital divide so far, Theorizing Digital Divides seeks to collect and analyse different perspectives and theoretical approaches in analysing digital inequalities, and thus propose a nuanced approach to study the digital divide.

      Exploring theories from diverse perspectives within the social sciences whilst presenting clear examples of how each theory is applied in digital divide research, this book will appeal to scholars and undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology of inequality, digital culture, Internet studies, mass communication, social theory, sociology, and media studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |8 pages

      Introduction

      ByMassimo Ragnedda, and Glenn Muschert

      section |52 pages

      Using classical social theories to understand digital divide

      chapter |10 pages

      The sociology of Simmel and digital divides

      Information, value, exchange, and sociation in the networked environment
      ByGlenn W. Muschert, and Ryan Gunderson

      chapter |14 pages

      Social capital and the three levels of digital divide

      ByMassimo Ragnedda, and Maria Laura Ruiu

      chapter |13 pages

      Do data analysts fill the role of the psychoanalyst?

      The contemporary digital divide and Freud’s theory
      ByTomohisa Hirata

      chapter |13 pages

      The interpretive and ideal-type approach

      Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a Weberian perspective
      ByBarbara Barbosa Neves, and Geoffrey Mead

      section |70 pages

      Associative and communicative perspectives

      chapter |12 pages

      Disability and digital inequalities

      Rethinking digital divides with disability theory
      ByGerard Goggin

      chapter |13 pages

      “The language metaphor”

      An epistemological approach to the digital divide
      ByLorenzo Dalvit

      chapter |15 pages

      Theorizing digital divides through the lens of the social construction of technology and social shaping of technology

      BySusan B. Kretchmer

      chapter |14 pages

      Critical infrastructures, critical geographies

      Towards a spatial theory of the digital divide
      ByJohn Haffner

      chapter |14 pages

      A “recognitional perspective” on the twenty-first century’s digital divide

      ByEva Klinkisch, and Anne Suphan

      section |76 pages

      Critical and alternative perspectives

      chapter |13 pages

      Rethinking the information society

      A decolonial and border gnosis of the digital divide in Africa and the Global South
      ByLast Moyo

      chapter |11 pages

      Digital divide in Turkey as a non-western country

      ByDuygu Özsoy

      chapter |16 pages

      This question of the Other presence

      Theorizing online representation and the voice of the digital subaltern
      ByCitt Williams, Tania Gupta, and Marilyn Wallace

      chapter |13 pages

      The digital divide and classifications

      The inscription of citizens into the state
      ByMorten Hjelholt, and Jannick Schou

      chapter |13 pages

      Gendered cyberhate

      A new digital divide?
      ByEmma Jane

      chapter |8 pages

      Afterword

      The state of digital divide theory
      ByJan van Dijk
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