International Explorations of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide:
Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives
A book edited by Dr. Patricia Randolph Leigh
Iowa State University, USA
The digital divide refers to differential access between groups of individuals to computer-related resources and includes differential use of these same resources. In this edited volume, authors will explore the historical, political, sociological, and economic factors that engender global inequities related to digital technologies. In-depth examinations of the definition and origin of the 'digital divide' will illuminate its relationship to the histories of racism, sexism, classism, and imperialism/globalization. The contributing authors will present the phenomenon of digital equity from various critical social theory perspectives. These critical perspectives, together with the histories of domination and oppression on different continents, will provide contexts for understanding the fertile grounds made available for the international growth and expansion of digital inequity.
Contributors with accepted and revised chapters are entering the
final phase of this publication process. Final chapter manuscripts
and final materials should be submitted to the editor by the December
15, 2009 deadline. Final materials to be submitted with the final
manuscripts can be found on the author
guidelines page.
