Digital inequalities in the Global South. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova.
• Editors: Ragnedda, Massimo, 1976-; Gladkova, Anna
• Contents: 1 Introduction2. Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global SouthSection I Digital Inequalities in South Asia3 Impacts of the Digital Divide on the E-governmentPortals of Nepal4. A Widening Digital Divide and Its Impacts on ExistingSocial Inequalities and Democracy in Pakistan5. Widening the Wedge: Digital Inequalities and Social Media in India6. ICTs, Power Prejudice and Empowerment: DigitalExclusion of the Poor in Rural BangladeshSection II Digital Inequalities in Central and Western Asia7. Weaponization of Access, Communication Inequalities asa Form of Control: Case of Israel/Palestine8. Digital Inequalities in CIS Countries: Updated Approach to the Analysis of Situation9. A Comparison of High-Skill and Low-Skill InternetUsers in Northeast Anatolia, TurkeySection III Digital Inequalities in Africa10. Digital Infrastructure Enabling Platforms for Health Information and Education in the Global South11. 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 Study13. The End of the Public Sphere: Social Media, Civic Virtue, and the Democratic Divide14. The Digital Divide: Observations from the South About a Failed Dialog with the North15. 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 303.4833091724; Digital divide -- Developing countries; Equality -- Developing countries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030327064
• Related ISBNs: 9783030327057
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