The digital divide facing a crisis or creating a myth? /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Compaine, Benjamin M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
Series:MIT Press sourcebooks.
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245 0 4 |a The digital divide  |h [electronic resource] :  |b facing a crisis or creating a myth? /  |c edited by Benjamin M. Compaine. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c 2001. 
300 |a xvi, 357 p. :  |b ill. 
490 1 |a MIT Press sourcebooks 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-342) and index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: I The Set-Up: Documenters of the Digital Divide 1 -- 1 Falling through the Net: A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and -- Urban America 7 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 2 Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide 17 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 3 The Evolution of the Digital Divide: Examining the Relationship of -- Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time 47 -- Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, and Ann E. Schlosser -- I The Context: Background and Texture 99 -- 4 Information Gaps: Myth or Reality? 105 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- 5 Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Study of Telephone -- Penetration in Camden, New Jersey 119 -- Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement -- 6 Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of the -- Issue 147 -- Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub -- 7 Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution 179 -- Milton L. Mueller -- III The Advocates: Raising the Stakes 189 -- 8 Equality in the Information Age 195 -- William E. Kennard -- 9 The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: -- Economic Reality versus Public Policy 199 -- The First Triennial Review, 1999 -- Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman -- 10 The E-rate in America: A Tale of Four Cities 223 -- Andy Carvin, editor, with Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert -- 11 Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal -- Implications 243 -- Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger -- M. Mitchell -- 12 Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use 263 -- Marc Lacey -- IV Reality Check: Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech -- Time 265 -- 13 Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000 269 -- Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report 269 -- Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring -- The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States 272 -- Cheskin Research -- Survey of Americans on Technology 274 -- National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy -- School of Government -- 14 The Truth about the Digital Divide 279 -- Ekaterina O. Walsh with Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham -- 15 Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds 285 -- Pamela Mendels -- 16 Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide 289 -- John Simons -- 17 This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide 293 -- Timothy Hanrahan -- V What's It All Mean? 299 -- 18 Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure 303 -- Jorge Reina Schement -- 19 Falling for the Gap: Whatever Happened to the Digital -- Divide? 309 -- Adam Clayton Powell III -- 20 Declare the War Won 315 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Epilogue 337 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Source Notes 341 -- Contributors 343 -- Index 345. 
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