International exploration of technology equity and the digital divide [electronic resource] : critical, historical and social perspectives / Patricia Randolph Leigh, editor.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2011.Description: electronic texts (209 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781615207947 (ebook)
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Information society
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Computing in developing countries
- Cultural pluralism
- Digital abyss in Zimbabwe
- Digital divide in East Asian education
- Digital equity in a traditional culture
- Digital technology adoption
- Technological determinism
- Technology access and use in education
- Power of new media to support decolonization efforts
- Technology as a public good
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- Also available in print.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Caste, class, and IT in India / Elizabeth Langran -- India's Dalits search for a democratic opening in the digital divide / P. Thirumal, Gary Michael Tartaw -- Exploring the notion of "technology as public good" : emerging characteristics and trends of the digital divide in East Asian education / Sunnie Lee Watson, Thalia Mulvihill -- Creating virtual marae : an examination of how digital technologies have been adopted by maori in Aotearoa, New Zealand / Janinka Greenwood, Lynne Harara Te Aika, Niki Davis -- From igloos to iPods : Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and the Internet in Canada / Cynthia J. Alexander -- The digital abyss in Zimbabwe / Jill Jameson -- Paulo freire's liberatory pedagogy : rethinking issues of technology access and use in education / James C. McShay -- Digital equity and black Brazilians : honoring history and culture / Patricia Randolph Leigh -- Digital equity in a traditional culture : Gullah communities in South Carolina / Patricia Randolph Leigh, J. Herman Blake, Emily L. Moore -- Governing digital divides : power structures and ict strategies in a global perspective / Francesco Amoretti, Fortunato Musella.
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"This book explores and presents research that centers on the historical, political, sociological, and economic factors that engender global inequities"--Provided by publisher.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed Nov. 15, 2010).