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Digital Inequalities in the Global South 1st ed. Edition Massimo Ragnedda Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova

ISBN(s): 9783030327057, 9783030327064, 3030327051, 303032706X

Edition: 1st ed.

File Details: PDF, 5.06 MB

Year: 2020

Language: English

SKU: EB-22417786 Categories: Politics & Philosophy, Society Tags: Anna Gladkova, Digital Inequalities, Global South, Massimo Ragnedda

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Digital Inequalities in the Global South 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030327057,9783030327064,3030327051,303032706X

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 303032706X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783030327064
Author: Massimo Ragnedda; ‎Anna Gladkova

This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem – a binary division between ‘haves and have-nots’ – to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, and opportunities of people in the Global South region. Using specific case studies, this book underlines how communities in the Global South are now attempting to participate in the information age despite high costs, a lack of infrastructure, and more barriers to entry. Contributions discuss the recent changes in the Global South. These changes include greater technological availability, the spread of digital literacy programs and computer courses, and the overall growth in engagement of people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and languages in digital environments. This book outlines and evaluates the role of state and public institutions in facilitating these changes and consequently bridging the digital divide.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global South

Section I. Digital Inequalities in South Asia

3. Impacts of the Digital Divide on the E-government Portals of Nepal

4. A Widening Digital Divide and Its Impacts on Existing Social Inequalities and Democracy in Pakistan

5. Widening the Wedge: Digital Inequalities and Social Media in India

6. ICTs, Power Prejudice and Empowerment: Digital Exclusion of the Poor in Rural Bangladesh

Section II. Digital Inequalities in Central and Western Asia

7. Weaponization of Access, Communication Inequalities as a Form of Control: Case of Israel/Palestine

8. Digital Inequalities in CIS Countries: Updated Approach to the Analysis of Situation

9. A Comparison of High-Skill and Low-Skill Internet Users in Northeast Anatolia, Turkey

Section III. Digital Inequalities in Africa

10. Digital Infrastructure Enabling Platforms for Health Information and Education in the Global South

11. Moving Beyond the Rhetoric: Who Really Benefits from Investments in Digital Infrastructure in Low-Income and Low-Literacy Communities in Malawi?

12. Digital Inequality and Language Diversity: An Ethiopic Case Study

13. The End of the Public Sphere: Social Media, Civic Virtue, and the Democratic Divide

Section IV. Digital Inequalities in South America

14. The Digital Divide: Observations from the South About a Failed Dialog with the North

15. Social Inequality, Technological Inequality and Educational Heterogeneity in the Light of the Conectar Igualdad OLPC Programme (Salta, Argentina, 2015–2017)

16. Afro-Creole Nationalism and the Maintenance of the Digital Divide: The Case of Jamaica

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