Reconceptualizing Digital Social Inequality

Halford, Susan; Savage, Mike

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2010.499956

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“…Warren [21] stated that the digital divide can describe a situation in which a discrete sector of the population faces significant and possibly indefinite lags in its adoption of ICT through circumstances beyond its immediate control. Halford and Savage [22] stated that the notion of the digital divide implies a simple and singular boundary between digitally engaged and disengaged individuals, which glosses the possibility of a more complex process of stratification. Doong and Ho [23] analyzed the secondary data from 2000 to 2008 for 136 countries to examine the gap of ICT country-by-country.…”

Section: Digital Dividementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Halford and Savage [22] discussed conceptual tools, which might allow an elaborated sociological analysis of the relationship between information and communication technology on the one hand, and social inequalities on the other. They suggest that we need new perspectives and new tools which will enable us to go beyond established approaches to both technology and inequality and to find new ways of thinking, analyzing, and researching that get inside the complex and evolving nature of digital social inequalities.…”

Section: Digital Dividementioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable E-Governance: The Relationship among Trust, Digital Divide, and E-Government

2014

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This study empirically examines the correlation between the quality of e-government and trust in government. It used survey data collected in 2013 from the metropolitan areas of Seoul. An index was developed to measure the quality of e-government services, and the Gov 3.0 values were reflected in the analysis, including openness, sharing, communication, and collaboration. The results show a partial correlation between the quality of e-government service and trust in government. In addition, the level of trust varied according to the different type of the digital divide groups. It suggests that as ICT (Information Communication Technology) has become more sophisticated, a willingness to share information among organizations and stakeholders may become a major factor to thoseactively seeking information and resources to make value-added products. It also suggests that more integrated data management including network securityand an open attitude toward information sharing will be more important beyond the level of technical issues.

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Section: Digital Dividementioning

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Section: Digital Dividementioning

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Sustainable E-Governance: The Relationship among Trust, Digital Divide, and E-Government

2014

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“…Based on the literature (Halford & Savage, 2010;Van Dijk, 2005) and the items available in OxIS, we identify four areas of inclusion: economic, cultural, social and personal. 1 The framework used was that proposed by Helsper (2012) which looks at resources as individual characteristics, differing from sociological resource theory as used by De Haan et al (2002).…”

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Distinct skill pathways to digital engagement

Helsper

Eynon

2013

European Journal of Communication

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Distinct Skill Pathways to Digital EngagementThere is considerable variety in the type of activities that people undertake online (Dutton & Blank, 2011) and a number of inter-related individual and contextual explanations for why these differences exist. Two well documented factors are socio-demographic background and ICT related skills. Yet, despite the clear links between digital literacy and digital inclusion research, these two areas of research rarely come together. While digital literacy studies have been concerned with identifying different types of digital skills and Internet use; digital inclusion research mostly examines the links between individual characteristics and engagement with the Internet using a single skills measure. Thus, we know relatively little about how the range of different digital skills may vary due to the different socio economic and demographic backgrounds of internet users. Furthermore, even in digital literacy studies little work has been conducted to understand if certain types of digital skills are related to different kinds of digital engagement or the extent to which digital skills in one realm will transfer across to many kinds of online activities. We argue that this is caused by measurement issues and a lack of an integrated theory that combines different approaches to understanding the relationships between digital skills and engagement with ICTs. This paper uses data from the 2011 Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) to explore these issues in the UK context.

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“…Improving the outcomes of citizen participation through the use of ICTs also requires that government takes serious actions to reduce digital inequalities (Halford & Savage, 2010;Robinson et al, 2015) or the digital divide between the haves and the have nots. This can be achieved by developing communication platforms that can be accessed by everyone, so that every citizen will have the opportunity to enhance his life choices by participating in the decision process.…”

Section: Journal Of Public Administration and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of the Information Society in Promoting a Better and a More Democratic Governance

Moghrabi

Sabharwal

2017

JPAG

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One of the major shifts that our society has witnessed in the past few decades is the paradigm shift from traditional bureaucracies to network arrangements in policy making and service delivery. This paper explores the New Governance as a paradigm shift in Public Administration with an emphasis on the democratic aspect of it. Approaching the New Governance from an Open Systems Theory perspective, this paper argues that the advent and the widespread use of ICTs and the -infosphere‖ -and the -information society‖ that has emerged from it -would help in promoting a better and a more democratic governance by providing new channels to put democracy into practice. This paper also acknowledges the dark side of the -infosphere‖ and the ethical challenges that have come along with it.

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Reconceptualizing Digital Social Inequality

Cited by 125 publications

References 20 publications

Sustainable E-Governance: The Relationship among Trust, Digital Divide, and E-Government

Sustainable E-Governance: The Relationship among Trust, Digital Divide, and E-Government

Distinct skill pathways to digital engagement

The Role of the Information Society in Promoting a Better and a More Democratic Governance

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