Nicol Turner Lee

Gebundenes Buch

Digitally Invisible

How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

Beschreibung

Explores the real-life consequences of the digital divide and what can be done to close it. Based on fieldwork across the United States, this book explores the consequences of digital exclusion through the real-life narratives of individuals, communities, and businesses that lack sufficient online access.

Autor

By Nicol Turner Lee

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 145mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780815738985
• ISBN-10: 0815738986
• Artikelnr.: 59917379

Rezensionen

AI Equity Lab founder Lee argues that a digital divide persists in the United States due to race- and place-based discrimination. Her book notes three decades of federal efforts to foster digital equity, with particular attention to the Biden administration's policies and their limitations. Millions of Americans, especially people of color and those who live in low-income rural and urban areas, lack affordable broadband or high-speed internet access, and which prevents people from finding jobs, working remotely, accessing telehealth services or public benefits systems, doing homework, or even using modern farm equipment. Plus, analog and in-person services have diminished, leaving folks without broadband in the lurch. Lee recounts her travels around the country interviewing people impacted by the digital divide and recalls her time as a computer lab manager at a low-income residential tower in Chicago. This thorough narrative rethinks the digital divide from the lens and considerations of race and place. It's sure to inform debates and directions in public policy, industry, and civil society, including libraries.