附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Inte
摘要:Annotation The Digital Divide refers to the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. If we are indeed in an Information Age, then not having access to this information is an economic and social handicap. Some people consider the Digital Divide to be a national crisis, while others consider it an over-hyped nonissue. This book presents data supporting the existence of such a divide in the 1990s along racial, economic, ethnic, and education lines. But it also presents evidence that by 2000 the gaps are rapidly closing without substantive public policy initiatives and spending. Together, the contributions serve as a sourcebook on this controversial issue.
