Internet and Information Paper

The second article titled “Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use” by Paul DiMaggio, Eszter Harittai, Coral Celeste, and Steven Shafer is about the Inequality with internet access and how it is a

It is most often referred to as the divide between “those with access to new technologies and those without” (Irving) or between “haves and have-nots”(Hecht) in terms of information technologies. However, using “access” to define digital divide is quite improper, since an opportunity to log on to the Web does not imply knowledge to use it efficiently. For example, situation in an underdeveloped country will not improve dramatically even if new technologies were artificially integrated in its economy, unless people have the proper skills to utilize them successfully. Likewise, the suitability of the second definition could also be questioned, as information should be measured in terms of quality, rather than of quantity, because specific information with exact economic value is what really matters in e-commerce (Foster 442-43). Probably the best way to characterize digital divide is as the growing social and economic disparities between the rich and the poor.

Since its introduction on a public scale in the 1990s, the internet has been associated with many changes in social experience. Many aspects of social life such as education, work, commerce and even personal relationships have changed through the internet. However, researchers have found that, at least in the early years, access to the internet is shaped according to gender, class, ethnicity and education. During the 1990s the typical information technology user was a white, male, professional with a background in IT. This bias in internet access was named the ‘digital divide’ to point out the implied social inequalities. It was said that the internet was

The digital divide is related to the access that certain people have to the knowledge and the resources necessary to keep up with society or to better their lifestyle. Researches has indicated that people from different socio-economic groups have limited access to technologies like unlimited internet access, the latest smartphones, or IPads which limits their personal and professional development. These restrictions contribute to what is known as the digital divide. Simply put, the digital divide is the division of knowledge and resources between the haves and the have-nots. The digital divide does exist but this should not be an excuse for people not to learn. As learned in our Principles of Adult Education class, adult learning can take place anywhere and anytime. People can learn in a classroom, on the job, or at home but learning is a contact sport and people have to want to

The poverty of our students causes limited access to resources outside of school including technology which increases the digital divide for our students. Currently, there is very limited amounts of technology within my building as well, so the digital divide is growing for many of my students.

The digital divide gap creates many differences between the men and women and also between the countries. This report aims to explore the digital divide gap between men and women and also between the developed and developing countries which can be increase from year 2004 -2014. For that concern I have analysed many articles, news, eBooks and internet data to get information about the digital divide and there are too many question arises for this gap. Where does it happen and why? What are their causes? How

I am convinced the Internet is one the most successful and useful tools ever created. The Internet is the modern source of information that can be delivered in a variety of media from written words, graphics, videos, images and more. The main reasons I use the Internet is for information, communication, and entertainment.

Digital divide: is the division between those who lack communication through high tech devices or Information Communication Technology (ICT) to access the use of the Internet and those that have access to these devices. The five factors in my opinion responsible for digital divide are: age, disability, rural area, income, and education.

YouTube posed somewhat of a question mark in my household when it came pre-downloaded onto my mother’s first iPhone in 2007. Only two years after its creation, the app’s icon resembled a brown, old fashioned TV- nothing like the vivid, red play button that is used now. My mum deleted the app, convinced there was no need for it. I discovered just how wrong she was in March 2012 when at thirteen I turned to YouTube to learn how to sing ‘On My Own’ from Les Miserables for a school competition. It was clear that I rarely used the internet as my research history on my small but heavy pink laptop consisted of the welfare of Mekong dolphins (googled for a biology project) and clairesaccessories.com. After watching an array of professional singers, I came across the wide range of ‘covers’- a new concept to me- that YouTube had on offer. Up until this point I thought the internet was exclusive to celebrities; singers and movie stars and the occasional X Factor finalist, but as I gazed into the small screen of my laptop, I saw girls within my age group, proudly displaying themselves for anyone who wanted to see. First I watched a girl named Carrie Hope Fletcher. She was eighteen and had blonde curls springing from her head in every direction, pulling me into her channel, ‘itswaypastmybedtime,’ which was packed with different covers where she even played the piano or guitar, and plastered in book reviews and Harry Potter references. She was like the presenter of a TV show that had been

Inequity between those who have and have not is not new to the modern era. In days gone by (and today) commodities like property, animals, tools, or currency divided class structures. In this day and age technological device access, specifically, internet access can be grouped into this same category. The expression coined to articulate the disparity linking the have and have not 's by means of technology is called the “Digital Divide” (Sparks, 2015). The Digital Divide concept came to fruition in the early 1990s in The United States, describing those who have computers and individuals or groups who do not (

When discussing the digital divide, it must be understood that the digital divide can be divided up to aspects. These aspects include the global divide between countries, social divide within a country and the democratic divide (Norris 2001) . As suggested by their names the global divide looks at the difference that exist between developed countries and the developing countries. The social divide focuses on the gap that exist between those who have access to information within the same country, and the democratic divide discusses the gap between those who can incorporate and use technology in public life and those who cannot. (Norris 2001) In terms of the global digital divide, there has been an increase in the number of people with internet access for both developing and developed nations. This is

The convenience the Internet provides in our daily lives is having an adverse impact on its users. Being able to socialize, shop, and access incredible amounts of information at the press of a button has swiftly changed the dynamics of society in the last 20 years. This sudden development of being able to manage our lives through the Internet has negatively affected those who rely on it too much. Consumers are falling victim to addiction as entertainment is providing an escape from reality. Privacy is becoming non-existent as people are casting a mold of their identities online through social media apps. Intelligence agencies are getting the inside

Just exactly what is “Digital Divide?” The digital divide refers to the fact that certain parts of the population have significantly better opportunities to benefit from the new economy than other parts of the population. When we discuss the usage of “computing devices”, the internet and the World Wide Web, we do not think about the individuals who lack any of these devices technology has provided the majority of population for everyday use. There is a considerable gap in the number of individuals able to access the internet and gather information, pay bills, socialize, conduct banking needs, and purchases. These are basic functions people use every day that others cannot.

With the invention of the internet, many things in our life have gotten much easier. No longer do papers have to be solely researched in the library and facts can be looked up in a moment’s notice. As it is said, we have the world at our fingertips. The invention of the internet has brought some negative consequences as well, such as the selling and distribution of illegal ancient artifacts across the world. This distribution is not always a bad thing but the sale of fake and looted artifacts can cause a decrease in the amount of confidence that a purchaser has in the item. While searching eBay for ancient Egyptian antiquities, one must be careful to weed out the genuine items from the rest.

To many, the web has always been a magical and mysterious place. It exists inside of a box that sits on our desk or a smaller box that we carry in our hand like an extra body part. The web never lets us down. It carries all of our important information. It tells us who sang that song that we obsessively played on repeat in Fourth grade or allows us to own the book that everyone has been talking about without it taking up space on a shelf in our homes. The web gives us everything we need, exactly when we need it, without fail. It seems like this beautiful thing that has existed for as long as humans have been civilized. It fits into our lives so nicely that we couldn’t imagine a world where “Googling” didn’t exist and we couldn’t queue up the most recent episode of Orange Is The New Black whenever we were ready to heat up some popcorn and lounge on the couch.