Second Thoughts on the Digital Divide

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Rose, D. & Jones, G. (2009). Second Thoughts on the Digital Divide. In I. Gibson et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (pp. 722-727). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2009
Charleston, SC, USA
March 2, 2009
ISBN 1-880094-67-3
  Ian Gibson, Roberta Weber, Karen McFerrin, Roger Carlsen & Dee Anna Willis
AACE

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Authors

Danny Rose, Greg Jones, University of North Texas, USA

Abstract

The Digital Divide has been a concept long bandied about by critical theorists and technology specialists for years as a means of addressing the perceived inequity between technological haves and technological have-nots. Unfortunately this problem itself is not nearly this simple. It is easy to separate society into two distinct groups, but technology use is best defined as a continuum - not a binary classification - and is affected by such varied things as social capital, cultural beliefs, age, location, and even desire. As Douglas Adams so skillfully illustrates in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in regards to the question of life; if we don’t know the exact question, how can we expect to answer it?

Keywords

• Digital Divide

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