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Causes and trends of the digital divide: a European perspective
Ursachen und Trends der digitalen Spaltung: eine europäische Perspektive
[Sammelwerksbeitrag]
Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
Abstract "Starting point of the author's research is the appearance of a new form of social inequality: the digital divide. He defines this abstract notion as the opening cleavage between the information poor and the information rich, forming an additional source of inequality within the already established ... mehr
"Starting point of the author's research is the appearance of a new form of social inequality: the digital divide. He defines this abstract notion as the opening cleavage between the information poor and the information rich, forming an additional source of inequality within the already established social ordering. He deals with reasons for private computer and internet use. The general question is who uses internet for her or his private ends and how do we explain possible differences. Research on this topic sometimes is challenged by charges of studying a non-existent myth or 'luxury' problem. However, computer literacy seems to be significantly related to socioeconomic positions. Most of the studies deal with the numbers and counts of computers, hosts, internet connections, indicating a predominantly economistic view towards the problem. This approach, however, disregards all other social, cultural, or technological implications. His results indicate that human capital and social capital are more important than economic capital when looking at the pathways of innovation diffusion. All in all, money seems to be the least important measure to understand patterns of the unequal technology diffusion. He concludes that successful new technologies do not diffuse haphazardly but systematically into our society. The usual diffusion process is a vertical movement from the highest to the lowest status position along the socio-economic strata until most households directly or indirectly are included." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Informationsgesellschaft; Diffusion; Innovation; sozioökonomische Faktoren; Information; Technologie; Digitalisierung; Sozialkapital; Internet; Computer; Ungleichheit; soziale Ungleichheit; Privathaushalt; Humankapital
Klassifikation
Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften
Technikfolgenabschätzung
Methode
deskriptive Studie
Titel Sammelwerk, Herausgeber- oder Konferenzband
Soziale Ungleichheit, kulturelle Unterschiede: Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München. Teilbd. 1 und 2
Herausgeber
Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert
Konferenz
32. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie "Soziale Ungleichheit - kulturelle Unterschiede". München, 2004
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Verlag
Campus Verl.
Erscheinungsort
Frankfurt am Main
Seitenangabe
S. 3043-3051
ISBN
3-593-37887-6
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung