✦ LIBER ✦
Access to information technologies among school-age children: Implications for a democratic society
✍ Scribed by Martinez, Michael E.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 528 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
Access to information and participation in a democratic society are mutually dependent. This connection implies the possibility that a segment of society can become disenfranchised, not by exclusion from voting rights, but by exclusion from access to information and information technologies. Large-scale survey data on access to information technologies hint that such a process has already begun. As information technology proliferates, we approach a societal watershed in which technology will either improve the life chances of the disadvantaged or further drive a wedge between the poor and the privileged.