Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide

By P. Norris. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Media Technology

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The digital divide has grown old: Determinants of a digital divide among seniors (2016, background): “Negative outcomes of a so-called digital divide are predominantly discussed in relation with political information and participation (Bonfadelli, 2002; Norris, 2003; Sourbati, 2009; Wei, 2012; Wei and Hindman, 2011), health, disability and well-being (Dobransky and Hargittai, 2012; Rains, 2008; Rice”
Confronting the data-divide in a time of spatial turns and volunteered geographic information (2013, background): “Keywords Spatial turn Geography Volunteered geographic information GeoWeb Public health Data access”
Environment and Policy Factors Shaping Global E-Commerce Diffusion: A Cross-Country Comparison (2003, background): “A related concern is that uneven diffusion of e-commerce and the Internet is creating a “digital divide” and exacerbating the gap between rich and poor countries (e.g., Norris, 2001).”
The shape of eParticipation: Characterizing an emerging research area (2008, background): “89) may lead to social inequalities (Norris, 2001).”
Reconsidering Political and Popular Understandings of the Digital Divide (2004, background): “On a dayto-day basis, the economics of using ICTs are crucial and ongoing mediating factors (Norris, 2001), with some commentators arguing that the digital divide is primarily about people ‘tak[ing] individual responsibility for the economics of getting online’ (Haywood, 1998: 23).”
Africa and the digital divide (2008, background): “Pippa Norris sees it as ‘‘any and every disparity within the online community’’ (Norris, 2001, p. 4), Ernest J. Wilson III as ‘‘an inequality in access, distribution, and use of information and communication technologies between two or more populations’’ (Wilson, 2006, p. 300).”
Telecommunications Reform, Internet Use and Mobile Phone Adoption in the Developing World (2009, background): “Early research found that economic factors far outweighed others in determining on which side of the digital divide a country fell, but recent studies suggest that political and social variables can also have an impact (Corrales & Westhoff, 2006; Milner, 2006; Norris, 2001).”
Does home Internet use influence the academic performance of low-income children? findings from the HomeNetToo project (2003, background): “Gender differences in Internet use, though prevalent globally (Norris, 2001), have decreased dramatically in the United States.”
Facebook and political engagement: A study of online political group membership and offline political engagement (2012, background): “Yet by providing minority groups a digital space to meet, the Internet becomes a place of external ideological balance, where individual group’s space lack internal balance (Norris, 2001).”
From Internet to social safety net: The policy consequences of online participation in China (2019, background): “…field in politics, the internet tends to reinforce and even exacerbate the existing participatory gap across classes and socioeconomic status (Jennings and Zeitner 2003; Norris 2001; Schlozman, Verba and Brady 2012, 483-533) and amplify elite voices (Hindman 2009; Margolis and Resnick 2000).”