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Digital inequalities in the Global South

Gladkova, Anna.

Digital inequalities in the Global South

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Digital inequalities in the Global Southedited by Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova.
other author:	Ragnedda, Massimo.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xvii, 372 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Information technologySocial aspectsDeveloping countries.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32706-4
ISBN:	9783030327064$q(electronic bk.)

Digital inequalities in the Global South
Digital inequalities in the Global South[electronic resource] /edited by Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xvii, 372 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Global transformations in media and communication research,2634-5978. - Global transformations in media and communication research..

1 Introduction -- 2. Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global South -- Section I Digital Inequalities in South Asia -- 3 Impacts of the Digital Divide on the E-government Portals of Nepal. - 4. A Widening Digital Divide and Its Impacts on Existing Social Inequalities and Democracy in Pakistan -- 5. Widening the Wedge: Digital Inequalities and Social Media in India -- 6. ICTs, Power Prejudice and Empowerment: Digital Exclusion of the Poor in Rural Bangladesh -- Section II Digital Inequalities in Central and Western Asia -- 7. Weaponization of Access, Communication Inequalities as a Form of Control: Case of Israel/Palestine -- 8. Digital Inequalities in CIS Countries: Updated Approach to the Analysis of Situation -- 9. A Comparison of High-Skill and Low-Skill Internet Users in Northeast Anatolia, Turkey -- Section III Digital Inequalities in Africa -- 10. 10 Digital Infrastructure Enabling Platforms for Health Information and Education in the Global South -- 11. Moving Beyond the Rhetoric: Who Really Benefits from Investments in Digital Infrastructure in Low-Income and Low-Literacy Communities in Malawi? -- 12. Digital Inequality and Language Diversity: An Ethiopic Case Study -- 13. The End of the Public Sphere: Social Media, Civic Virtue, and the Democratic Divide -- 14. The Digital Divide: Observations from the South About a Failed Dialog with the North -- 15. Social Inequality, Technological Inequality and Educational Heterogeneity in the Light of the Conectar Igualdad OLPC Programme (Salta, Argentina, 2015-2017) -- 16. Afro-Creole Nationalism and the Maintenance of the Digital Divide: The Case of Jamaica.

This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, and opportunities of people in the Global South region. Using specific case studies, this book underlines how communities in the Global South are now attempting to participate in the information age despite high costs, a lack of infrastructure, and more barriers to entry. Contributions discuss the recent changes in the Global South. These changes include greater technological availability, the spread of digital literacy programs and computer courses, and the overall growth in engagement of people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and languages in digital environments. This book outlines and evaluates the role of state and public institutions in facilitating these changes and consequently bridging the digital divide.

ISBN: 9783030327064$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-32706-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

188114
Information technology
--Social aspects--Developing countries.

LC Class. No.: HC59.72.I55 / D54 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 303.4833091724

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