The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth?, edited by Benjamin M. Compaine

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The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth?, edited by Benjamin M. Compaine

Title remainder

facing a crisis or creating a myth?

Statement of responsibility

edited by Benjamin M. Compaine

Instantiates

• The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth?

Publication

• Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2001

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

online resource

Carrier category code

• cr

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Color

multicolored

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

I. The Set-Up : Documenters of the Digital Divide -- -- Falling through the Net : A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and Urban America / National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- Falling through the Net : Defining the Digital Divide / -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- The Evolution of the Digital Divide : Examining the Relationship of Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time / Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, and Ann E. Schlosser -- -- II. The Context : Background and Texture -- -- Information Gaps : Myth or Reality? / Benjamin M. Compaine -- Universal Service from the Bottom Up : A Study of Telephone Penetration in Camden, New Jersey / Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement -- Universal Access to Online Services : An Examination of the Issue / Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub -- Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution / Milton L. Mueller -- -- III. The Advocates : Raising the Stakes -- -- Equality in the Information Age / William E. Kennard -- The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996 : Economic Reality versus Public Policy -- The First Triennial Review, 1999 / Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman -- The E-rate in America : A Tale of Four Cities / Andy Carvin, editor, with Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert -- Universal Access to Email : Feasibility and Societal Implications / Robert H. Anderson [and others] -- Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use / Marc Lacey -- -- IV. Reality Check : Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech Time -- -- Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000 -- Internet and Society : A Preliminary Report / Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring -- The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States / Cheskin Research -- Survey of Americans on Technology / National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy School of Government -- The Truth about the Digital Divide / Ekaterina O. Walsh with Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham -- Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds / Pamela Mendels -- Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide / John Simons -- This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide / Timothy Hanrahan -- -- V. What's It All Mean? -- -- Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure / Jorge Reina Schement -- Falling for the Gap : Whatever Happened to the Digital Divide? / Adam Clayton Powell III -- Declare the War Won / Benjamin M. Compaine -- Epilogue / Benjamin M. Compaine

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49569455

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1 online resource (xvi, 357 pages)

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online

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9781282100251

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computer

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rdamedia

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• c

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9780262531931

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.b4958988x

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Electronic reproduction.

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(OCoLC)49569455

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.