How (not) to deepen information inequality via information policy: a contribution of the contextual approach
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781789903584.00042" target="_blank" >10.4337/9781789903584.00042</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How (not) to deepen information inequality via information policy: a contribution of the contextual approach
Original language description
The author conducts a critical analysis of misleading assumptions that proliferate in research and policies addressing the digital divide and which further prove relevant in terms of their potential integration with the research tradition focused on information inequality. The argument is supported by evidence garnered by research on the knowledge gap, outcomes of internet use, mobile phone use, social support and diffusion of innovations. This critical reworking of the subject utilizes relevant sections from previous work by the author, which aims at transcending the existing conceptual framework dominating the tangled web of digital divide research, information society theory and information policy. The concluding section presents an alternative, contextual approach and its implications for information policy in terms of two newly-identified determinants of the digital divide: the embeddedness of the internet in a social context and the cost-outcome ratio of using alternative information sources when compared to the internet.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Research Handbook on Information Policy
ISBN
978-1-78990-357-7
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
370-385
Number of pages of the book
442
Publisher name
Edward Elgar Publishing
Place of publication
Cheltenham
UT code for WoS chapter
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