Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet WorldwideThere is widespread concern that the Internet is exacerbating inequalities between the information rich and poor. |
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Contents
Introductory Framework | 1 |
The Digital Divide | 3 |
Understanding the Digital Divide | 26 |
Wired World | 39 |
Social Inequalities | 68 |
The Virtual Political System | 93 |
Theories of Digital Democracy | 95 |
eGovernance | 112 |
Civic Society | 171 |
The Democratic Divide | 193 |
Cyberculture | 195 |
Civic Engagement | 217 |
Conclusions Promoting eDemocracy | 232 |
Nations in the Study and Abbreviated Names Used in Figures | 241 |
Notes | 247 |
Select Bibliography | 273 |
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