NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Move, Community Access Program, Technology Transfer
5 Jan 2016
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Important to researchers, policy-makers, and politicians because: technology provides educational, political, and economic advantages, creates power imbalances and potential conflict between social groups. Key issues include the social, economic, and cultural consequences for those not connected to the internet. Digital divide : describes technological inequality, and an important means of conceptualizing inequality: differences between social groups in access to, use of, and empowerment by networked computers and digital tools. Significant differences were found in access rates based on age, gender, education, rural/urban, single/dual parent households, ethnicity, and income. Access to the internet reflects existing inequalities in society. Economic resources were important - significant costs associated with acquiring the technology and connection service. The gap may have increased existing inequalities by putting the have- nots at a disadvantage over the haves in terms of information, connectivity, and skills. Three problems were implemented during this time in an attempt to close.
