The Digital Divide
by Jan van Dijk · Jan van Dijk
Jan van Dijk's synthesis of three decades of research on unequal access to computers and the internet, covering motivation, physical access, skills and usage. Readers finish able to distinguish the successive divides and the inequalities each one produces.
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