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The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth?
- Title
- The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Compaine, Benjamin M.
- Description
- xvi, 357 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- MIT Press sourcebooks
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The set-up: documenters of the digital divide -- Falling through the net: a survey of the "have-nots" in rural and urban America / National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- Falling through the net: defining the digital divide / National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- The evolution of the digital divide: examining the relationship of race to internet access and usage over time / Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, Ann E. Schlosser -- The context: background and texture -- Information gaps: myth or reality? / Benjamin M. Compaine -- Universal service from the bottom up: a study of telephone penetration in Camden, New Jersey / Milton L. Mueller, Jorge Reina Schement -- Universal access to online services: an examination of the issue / Benjamin M. Compaine, Mitchell J. Weinraub -- Universal service policies as wealth redistribution / Milton L. Mueller -- The advocates: raising the stakes -- Equality in the information age / William E. Kennard -- The digital divide confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: economic reality versus public policy. The first triennial review, 1999 / Mark Cooper, Gene Kimmelman -- The e-rate in America: a tale of four cities / Andy Carvin, Chris Conte, Allen Gilbert -- Universal access to email: feasibility and societal implications / Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, Bridger M. Mitchell -- Clinton enlists help for plan to increase computer use / Marc Lacey -- Reality check: tracking a moving target in high-tech time -- Data from three empirical studies, 2000 -- Internet and society: a preliminary report / Norman H. Nie, Lutz Erbring -- The digital world of Hispanics in the United States / Cheskin Research
- -- Survey of Americans on technology / National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy School of Government -- The truth about the digital divide / Ekaterina O. Walsh, Michael E. Gazala, Christine Ham -- Internet access spreads to more classrooms, survey finds / Pamela Mendels -- Cheap computers bridge digital divide / John Simons -- This Internet start-up looks to conquer an online divide / Timothy Hanrahan -- What's it all mean? -- Of gaps by which democracy we measure / Jorge Reina Schement -- Falling for the gap: whatever happened to the digital divide? / Adam Clayton Powell III --Declare the war won / Benjamin M. Compaine.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-15014
- ISBN
- 0262531933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0262032872 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 00048964
- OCLC
- 45230379
- Title
- The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.
- Series
- MIT Press sourcebooks
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Compaine, Benjamin M.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-15014