Digital Inclusion
International Policy and Research
Contributor(s)
Yates, Simeon (editor)
Carmi, Elinor (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
This collection presents policy and research that addresses digital inequalities, access, and skills, from multiple international perspectives. With a special focus on the impact of the COVID-19, the collection is based on the 2021 Digital Inclusion, Policy and Research Conference, with chapters from both academia and civic organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed citizens’ relationship with digital technologies for the foreseeable future. Many people’s main channels of communication were transferred to digital services, platforms, and apps. Everything ‘went online’: our families, friends, partners, health, work, news, politics, culture, arts and protesting. Yet access to digital technologies remained highly unequal. This brought digital inclusion policy and research to the fore, highlighting to policymakers and the public the ‘hidden’ challenges and impacts of digital exclusion and inequalities. The cutting-edge volume offers research findings and policycase studies that explore digital inclusion from the provision of basic access to digital, via education and digital literacy, and on to issues of gender and technology. Case studies are drawn from varied sources including the UK, Australia, South America, and Eastern Europe, providing a valuable resource in the pursuit of social equity and justice. This is an open access book.
Keywords
digital exclusion; digital policy; digital inequality; digital access; digital literacies; information divide; Covid-19; screen new dealDOI
10.1007/978-3-031-28930-9ISBN
9783031289309, 9783031289293, 9783031289309Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
Cham, 2024Imprint
Palgrave MacmillanSeries
Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities,Classification
Media studies: internet, digital media and society
Social welfare and social services
Regional, state and other local government
Sociology
Media studies
Social groups, communities and identities
Ethics and moral philosophy