Digital or Information Divide: A New Dimension of Social Stratification

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Author(s): Zbigniew Hulicki (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Michael A. Brown Sr. (Florida International University, USA)and Leigh Hersey (University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4168-4.ch002

Keywords: Digital Communications / Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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In different regions of the world, the growth in home broadband adoption and development of e-services depends on a number of factors which can decrease digital divide in size or can result in widened “gaps” between developed and developing economies as well as between rich and poor regions or social groups. These factors comprise both drivers of, and barriers to, development of broadband access and growth of e-services as well as human communication and digital interactions in terms of comprehension and relationship building (i.e., the successful collaboration in contemporary society). Using a human communication point of view, this chapter provides insight into a concept of information divide, specifies the distinction between digital and information divide, examines each of the factors that condition the mass-market broadband adoption, and considers the impact of techno economic stratification for the development of web-based e-services.

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