Bridging Urban Digital Divides? Urban Polarisation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)
By S. Graham. 2002
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The societal diffusion of information and communications technologies (ICTs) remains starkly uneven at all scales. It is in the contemporary city that this unevenness becomes most visible. In cities, clusters and enclaves of 'superconnected' people, firms and institutions often rest cheek-by-jowel with large numbers of people with non-existent or rudimentary access to communications technologies. In such a context, this paper has two objectives, reflected in its two parts. The first part of the paper seeks to demonstrate that dominant trends in ICT development are currently helping to support new extremes of social and geographical unevenness within and between human settlements and cities, in both the North and the South. The paper's second part aims to explore the prospect that such stark 'urban digital divides' might be ameliorated through progressive and innovative policy initiatives which treat cities and electronic technologies in parallel. It does this using a range of illustrative exemplars from a variety of contexts.
Subfields: Media Technology, Urban Studies
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- Critical interventions into the corporate smart city (2015, background): “Serious urban problems like poverty, inequality and discrimination appear to be largely absent from these neo-liberal urban visions and projects, and there appears to be little or no recognition that smart developments might contribute negatively to social polarisation in cities (what Graham and Mar”
- Will the real smart city please stand up? (2008, background): “Despite increasing rates of telecommunication diffusion, in 1990 less than half of all households in the city had a phone and only seven per cent had access to the internet, with the poorest 50 times less likely to have the internet (Graham, 2002, p. 43).”
- Blended learning in higher education: Trends and capabilities (2019, background): “Graham (2016) identified three ways in which people see technology as a facilitator of inclusion and equality in education: 1) increasing the diversity of mechanisms and modes in education; 2) decreasing barriers to education as a democratization mechanism; and 3) enhancing individual control over…”