Handbook of digital inequality
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2022), xii, 386 pp., figures, index
ISBN 978-1-03-530898-9 (pbk); 978-1-78811-657-2 (online)
"International contributors assess a variety of key contexts that impact access to digital technologies, including contextual variations related to geography and infrastructure, as well as individual differences related to age, income, health and disability status. Chapters explore how variations emerge across the life course, illustrating the effects of digital disparities on personal wellbeing. Intervening in critical debates relating to the digital divide, this Handbook offers key insights into privacy and trust issues that affect technological usage." (Publisher)
Contents
1 Introduction to the Handbook of Digital Inequality / Eszter Hargittai, 1
PART I: INFRASTRUCTURES AND GEOGRAPHIES
2 What’s missing? How technology maintenance is overlooked in representative surveys of digital inequalities / Amy L. Gonzales, Harry Yan, Glenna L. Read and Allison Brown, 9
3 Geographic inequality and the Internet / Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein, 28
4 Infrastructure and instance: how rural communities approach short- and long-term solutions to access [USA] / Alexis Schrubbe and Sharon Strover, 43
5 Digital inequality and mobiles: opportunities and challenges of relying on smartphones for digital inclusion in disadvantaged contexts [Chile] / Teresa Correa, Isabel Pavez and Javier Contreras, 59
6 Network and neighborhood effects in digital skills / Ellen Helsper, 72
PART II: DIGITAL INEQUALITY THROUGHOUT THE LIFECOURSE
7 Mobile media in teen life: information, networks and access / Junoh Kimm and Jeffrey Boase, 95
8 Looking back at millennials’ mobile transitions: differentiated patterns of mobile phone use among a diverse group of young adults [USA] / Su Jung Kim and Eszter Hargittai, 111
9 Smartphone pervasiveness in youth daily life as a new form of digital inequality [Italy] / Marco Gui and Tiziano Gerosa, 128
10 Avoiding Facebook: low-income youths’ (negative) discourses about Facebook [Italy] / Marina Micheli, 145
11 Inequality in access to information about college: how low-income first-year college students use social media for seeking and sharing information about college [USA] / Michael G. Brown and Nicole B. Ellison, 162
12 Digital skills inequality in the context of an aging society: the case of Poland / Tomasz Drabowicz, 179
13 Digital inequality among older adults: how East Yorkers in Toronto navigate digital media / Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman and Renwen Zhang, 191
14 Online social connectedness and well-being among older adults in the USA / Travis Kadylak and Shelia R. Cotten, 206
PART III: HEALTH AND DISABILITY
15 Digital inequalities in health communication / Heinz Bonfadelli, 217
16 Inequalities in digital health behaviors in American disadvantaged communities / Xiaoqian Li and Wenhong Chen, 233
17 Disability, internet, and digital inequality: the research agenda / Gerard Goggin, 252
18 The closing skills gap: revisiting the digital disability divide / Kerry Dobransky and Eszter Hargittai, 271
PART IV: PRIVACY AND TRUST
19 Why privacy matters to digital inequality / Yong Jin Park, 281
20 Digital inequalities in online privacy protection: effects of age, education and gender [Switzerland] / Moritz Büchi, Noemi Festic, Natascha Just and Michael Latzer, 293
21 How feelings of trust, concern, and control of personal online data influence web use [USA] / Elissa M. Redmiles and Cody L. J. Buntain, 308
22 Inequalities in online political participation: the role of privacy concerns [Germany] / Christoph Lutz and Christian Pieter Hoffmann, 323
23 Algorithmic literacy and platform trust [USA] / Bianca C. Reisdorf and Grant Blank, 338
24 Drills and spills: developing skills to protect one’s privacy online [USA] / Ashley Marie Walker and Eszter Hargittai, 355
PART I: INFRASTRUCTURES AND GEOGRAPHIES
2 What’s missing? How technology maintenance is overlooked in representative surveys of digital inequalities / Amy L. Gonzales, Harry Yan, Glenna L. Read and Allison Brown, 9
3 Geographic inequality and the Internet / Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein, 28
4 Infrastructure and instance: how rural communities approach short- and long-term solutions to access [USA] / Alexis Schrubbe and Sharon Strover, 43
5 Digital inequality and mobiles: opportunities and challenges of relying on smartphones for digital inclusion in disadvantaged contexts [Chile] / Teresa Correa, Isabel Pavez and Javier Contreras, 59
6 Network and neighborhood effects in digital skills / Ellen Helsper, 72
PART II: DIGITAL INEQUALITY THROUGHOUT THE LIFECOURSE
7 Mobile media in teen life: information, networks and access / Junoh Kimm and Jeffrey Boase, 95
8 Looking back at millennials’ mobile transitions: differentiated patterns of mobile phone use among a diverse group of young adults [USA] / Su Jung Kim and Eszter Hargittai, 111
9 Smartphone pervasiveness in youth daily life as a new form of digital inequality [Italy] / Marco Gui and Tiziano Gerosa, 128
10 Avoiding Facebook: low-income youths’ (negative) discourses about Facebook [Italy] / Marina Micheli, 145
11 Inequality in access to information about college: how low-income first-year college students use social media for seeking and sharing information about college [USA] / Michael G. Brown and Nicole B. Ellison, 162
12 Digital skills inequality in the context of an aging society: the case of Poland / Tomasz Drabowicz, 179
13 Digital inequality among older adults: how East Yorkers in Toronto navigate digital media / Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman and Renwen Zhang, 191
14 Online social connectedness and well-being among older adults in the USA / Travis Kadylak and Shelia R. Cotten, 206
PART III: HEALTH AND DISABILITY
15 Digital inequalities in health communication / Heinz Bonfadelli, 217
16 Inequalities in digital health behaviors in American disadvantaged communities / Xiaoqian Li and Wenhong Chen, 233
17 Disability, internet, and digital inequality: the research agenda / Gerard Goggin, 252
18 The closing skills gap: revisiting the digital disability divide / Kerry Dobransky and Eszter Hargittai, 271
PART IV: PRIVACY AND TRUST
19 Why privacy matters to digital inequality / Yong Jin Park, 281
20 Digital inequalities in online privacy protection: effects of age, education and gender [Switzerland] / Moritz Büchi, Noemi Festic, Natascha Just and Michael Latzer, 293
21 How feelings of trust, concern, and control of personal online data influence web use [USA] / Elissa M. Redmiles and Cody L. J. Buntain, 308
22 Inequalities in online political participation: the role of privacy concerns [Germany] / Christoph Lutz and Christian Pieter Hoffmann, 323
23 Algorithmic literacy and platform trust [USA] / Bianca C. Reisdorf and Grant Blank, 338
24 Drills and spills: developing skills to protect one’s privacy online [USA] / Ashley Marie Walker and Eszter Hargittai, 355
