TY - BOOK ID - 982233 TI - The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? PY - 2001 SN - 0262531933 9780262287029 0262287021 0585386633 9780585386638 9780262531931 0262032872 9780262032872 1282100254 9786612100253 PB - Cambridge (Mass.) MIT press DB - UniCat KW - Social change KW - Computer. Automation KW - Social problems KW - United States KW - #SBIB:309H103 KW - Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten KW - Digital divide KW - Information technology KW - Social aspects KW - Digital divide - United States. KW - Information technology - Social aspects - United States. KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:982233 AB - 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. ER -