Theorizing Digital Divides
London: Routledge (2018), vi, 211 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 9780367890254 (pbk); 9781315455334 (online)
"Although discussion of the digital divide is a relatively new phenomenon, social inequality is a deeply entrenched part of our current social world and is now reproduced in the digital sphere. Such inequalities have been described in multiple traditions of social thought and theoretical approaches. To move forward to a greater understanding of the nuanced dynamics of digital inequality, we need the theoretical lenses to interpret the meaning of what has been observed as digital inequality. This volume examines and explains the phenomenon of digital divides and digital inequalities from a theoretical perspective. Indeed, with there being a limited amount of theoretical research on the digital divide so far, Theorizing Digital Divides seeks to collect and analyse different perspectives and theoretical approaches in analysing digital inequalities, and thus propose a nuanced approach to study the digital divide." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert, 1
I. USING CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORIES TO UNDERSTAND DIGITAL DIVIDE
1 The Sociology of Simmel and Digital Divides: Information, Value, Exchange, and Sociation in the Networked Environment / Glenn W. Muschert, Ryan Gunderson, 11
2 Social capital and the three levels of digital divide / Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu, 21
3 Do contemporary media technologies and the architects of them fill the role of the psychoanalyst for the users of them? / Tomohisa Hirata, 35
4 The interpretive and ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a Weberian perspective / Barbara Barbosa Neves, Geoffrey Mead, 48
II. ASSOCIATIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE PERSPECTIVES
5 'Disability and Digital Inequalities: Rethinking Digital Divides with Disability Theory' / Gerard Goggin, 63
6 The materiality of mobile phones and visual impairment: accessible, accessibility and access devices / Lorenzo Dalvit, 75
7 Theorizing Digital Divides Through the Lens of Social Construction of Technology, Knowledge Gap, and Social Identity Construction / Susan Kretchmer, 88
8 Connection in Divided Space: Theorizing the Geographies of the Digital Divide / John Haffner, 103
9 A "recognitional perspective" on the 21st century digital divide / Eva Klinkisch, Anne Suphan, 117
III. CRITICAL AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES
10 Rethinking the network society: A decolonial and border gnosis of the digital divide in Africa / Last Moyo, 133
11 Digital Divide in Turkey as a non-Western Country / Duygu Özsoy, 146
12 Theorising Online Representation and the Voice of the Digital Subaltern / Citt Williams, Tania Gupta, Marilyn Wallace, 157
13 The Digital Divide and Citizen Classifications / Morten Hjelholt, Jannick Schou, 173
14 Gendered cyberhate: a new digital divide? / Emma A. Jane, 186
Afterword / Jan Van Dijk, 199
I. USING CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORIES TO UNDERSTAND DIGITAL DIVIDE
1 The Sociology of Simmel and Digital Divides: Information, Value, Exchange, and Sociation in the Networked Environment / Glenn W. Muschert, Ryan Gunderson, 11
2 Social capital and the three levels of digital divide / Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu, 21
3 Do contemporary media technologies and the architects of them fill the role of the psychoanalyst for the users of them? / Tomohisa Hirata, 35
4 The interpretive and ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a Weberian perspective / Barbara Barbosa Neves, Geoffrey Mead, 48
II. ASSOCIATIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE PERSPECTIVES
5 'Disability and Digital Inequalities: Rethinking Digital Divides with Disability Theory' / Gerard Goggin, 63
6 The materiality of mobile phones and visual impairment: accessible, accessibility and access devices / Lorenzo Dalvit, 75
7 Theorizing Digital Divides Through the Lens of Social Construction of Technology, Knowledge Gap, and Social Identity Construction / Susan Kretchmer, 88
8 Connection in Divided Space: Theorizing the Geographies of the Digital Divide / John Haffner, 103
9 A "recognitional perspective" on the 21st century digital divide / Eva Klinkisch, Anne Suphan, 117
III. CRITICAL AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES
10 Rethinking the network society: A decolonial and border gnosis of the digital divide in Africa / Last Moyo, 133
11 Digital Divide in Turkey as a non-Western Country / Duygu Özsoy, 146
12 Theorising Online Representation and the Voice of the Digital Subaltern / Citt Williams, Tania Gupta, Marilyn Wallace, 157
13 The Digital Divide and Citizen Classifications / Morten Hjelholt, Jannick Schou, 173
14 Gendered cyberhate: a new digital divide? / Emma A. Jane, 186
Afterword / Jan Van Dijk, 199
