Google and the Digital Divide

• Author : Elad Segev
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 21 January 2010

Beneficial to scholars and students in the fields of media and communication, politics and technology, this book outlines the significant role of search engines in general and Google in particular in widening the digital divide between individuals, organisations and states. It uses innovative methods and research approaches to assess and illustrate the digital divide by comparing the popular search queries in Google and Yahoo in different countries as well as analysing the various biases in Google News and Google Earth.

• Author : Elad Segev
• Publisher : Chandos Publishing
• Release : 07 February 2023

Aimed at information and communication professionals, scholars and students, Google and the Digital Divide: The Biases of Online Knowledge provides invaluable insight into the significant role that search engines play in growing the digital divide between individuals, organizations, and states. With a specific focus on Google, author Elad Segev explains the concept of the digital divide and the effects that today's online environment has on knowledge bias, power, and control. Using innovative methods and research approaches, Segev compares the popular

• Author : Mark Bauerlein
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 08 September 2011

This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein. Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online,

• Author : Jessamyn C. West
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 06 May 2011

An easy-to-read and understand guide to the complexities surrounding technology access and adoption that focuses on the ways libraries can help close the digital divide.

• Author : Anthony H. Normore,Antonia Issa Lahera
• Publisher : IAP
• Release : 01 September 2018

Crossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide: A Walk with Global Leaders explores the combined effect of the rapid growth of information as an increasingly fragmented information base, a large component of which is available only to people with money and/or acceptable institutional affiliations. In the recent past, the outcome of these challenges has been characterized as the "digital divide" between the information “haves” and “have nots” along racial and socio economic lines that seem to widen as time

• Author : Petr Lupač
• Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
• Release : 24 September 2018

This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization.

• Author : Bruce Mutsvairo,Massimo Ragnedda
• Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
• Release : 09 May 2019

Despite issues associated with the digital divide, mobile telephony is growing on the continent and the rise of smartphones has given citizens easy access to social networking sites. But the digital divide, which mostly reflects on one's race, gender, socioeconomic status or geographical location, stands in the way of digital progress. What opportunities are available to tame digital disparities? How are different societies in Africa handling digital problems? What innovative methods are being used to provide citizens with access to

• Author : Andromeda Yelton
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release : 01 January 2012

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• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Cambria Press
• Release : 07 February 2023

• Author : Culbertson,Dimarogonas,Costello,Lanna
• Publisher : RAND Corporation
• Release : 17 December 2019

Amid a growing global forced displacement crisis, refugees and the organizations that assist them have turned to technology as an important resource in solving problems in humanitarian settings. This report analyzes technology uses, needs, and gaps, as well as opportunities for better using technology to help displaced people and improving the operations of responding agencies.

• Author : Eduardo Gelbstein
• Publisher : Diplo Foundation
• Release : 07 February 2023

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Empowerment
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 February 2023

• Author : Morgan Anderson
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 08 December 2022

Educational technology is now ubiquitous in schooling, both in P-12 and at universities. Despite the imposition of technology in most aspects of teaching and learning, little attention has been given to the implications educational technology has for healthy student development, humane pedagogy, teacher labor, academic freedom, and the aims of social justice. Rather than merely a set of neutral tools, educational technology is bound up with systems of power and privilege that tend to deepen, rather than confront inequality. In

• Author : Randolph Leigh, Patricia
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 31 October 2010

"This book explores and presents research that centers on the historical, political, sociological, and economic factors that engender global inequities"--Provided by publisher.

• Author : Chhabra, Susheel
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 31 January 2012

"This book reviews the important impact ICTs have on economic, social, and political development and provides analyses of ICTs for education, commerce, and governance"--Provided by publisher.