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The second-level digital divide, also referred to as the production gap, describes the gap that separates the consumers of content on the Internet from the producers of content. [129] As the technological digital divide is decreasing between those with access to the Internet and those without, the meaning of the term digital divide is evolving ...
The digital divide in the United States refers to inequalities between individuals, households, and other groups of different demographic and socioeconomic levels in access to information and communication technologies ("ICTs") and in the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use the information gained from connecting.
The two books on digital democracy attempt to show that digital media mainly changes the form of the democratic processes, but not the measure of political participation and the nature of the political system. The books on the digital divide argue that digital inequality reinforces existing social, economic and cultural inequality. [7]
The first sole-authored book entitled Digital Sociology was published in 2015, [6] and the first academic conference on "Digital Sociology" was held in New York, NY in the same year. [ 7 ] Although the term digital sociology has not yet fully entered the cultural lexicon, sociologists have engaged in research related to the Internet since its ...
The global digital divide is a special case of the digital divide; the focus is set on the fact that "Internet has developed unevenly throughout the world" [14]: 681 causing some countries to fall behind in technology, education, labor, democracy, and
The digital divide in Nigeria is impacted by education, lack of electrical infrastructure, income, and urban drift, as well as a variety of other social and political factors contribute to Nigeria's growing digital divide. [40] [41] There have been efforts to reduce the digital divide by both government agencies and technology corporations. [42 ...
In contrast, Internet diffusion (introduced on a large scale in 1994) seems to have stalled at approximately 60% of American households. DiMaggio believes that this difference is the result of the so-called digital divide - inequalities in Internet usage by race, income, and education level. DiMaggio maintains that these inequalities were not ...
The internet-based media has to be accessed with digital devices and accessed to the internet. In the United States, there is a concern about the digital divide because not all Americans have access to the internet and devices. With the hope that Internet would close the knowledge gap, it has exposed the following inequities: access, motivation ...