ABSTRACT
The advent of broadband technology provides societies with new communicative opportunities and challenges. The deployment of broadband is expected to spur economic growth (ITU/UNESCO, 2011). It is not clear whether or how broadband technology achieves positive economic and social outcomes, however. In fact, the literature on media history, the social shaping of science and technology, social constructivism theories, and Actor Network Theory attest to the complex relationship between technology and society (Grint and Woolgar, 1997). The growing field of research on the distribution of access to and use of information technology is most commonly known under the rubric of digital divide.
