Digital Inequalities in the Global South

✍ Scribed by Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 378
• Series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem – a binary division between ‘haves and have-nots’ – to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, and opportunities of people in the Global South region. Using specific case studies, this book underlines how communities in the Global South are now attempting to participate in the information age despite high costs, a lack of infrastructure, and more barriers to entry. Contributions discuss the recent changes in the Global South. These changes include greater technological availability, the spread of digital literacy programs and computer courses, and the overall growth in engagement of people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and languages in digital environments. This book outlines and evaluates the role of state and public institutions in facilitating these changes and consequently bridging the digital divide.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introduction (Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova)....Pages 1-16
Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global South (Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova)....Pages 17-30
Front Matter ....Pages 31-31
Impacts of the Digital Divide on the E-government Portals of Nepal (Bhanu Bhakta Acharya)....Pages 33-57
A Widening Digital Divide and Its Impacts on Existing Social Inequalities and Democracy in Pakistan (Sadia Jamil)....Pages 59-78
Widening the Wedge: Digital Inequalities and Social Media in India (Padma Rani, Manjushree G. Naik, Binod C. Agrawal)....Pages 79-101
ICTs, Power Prejudice and Empowerment: Digital Exclusion of the Poor in Rural Bangladesh (Mohammad Sahid Ullah)....Pages 103-133
Front Matter ....Pages 135-135
Weaponization of Access, Communication Inequalities as a Form of Control: Case of Israel/Palestine (Hanna M. Kreitem)....Pages 137-157
Digital Inequalities in CIS Countries: Updated Approach to the Analysis of Situation (Olga Smirnova)....Pages 159-176
A Comparison of High-Skill and Low-Skill Internet Users in Northeast Anatolia, Turkey (Duygu Özsoy, Glenn Muschert)....Pages 177-195
Front Matter ....Pages 197-197
Digital Infrastructure Enabling Platforms for Health Information and Education in the Global South (Danica Radovanović, Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Erwan Le Quentrec, Ghislain Maurice Norbert Isabwe, Josef Noll)....Pages 199-222
Moving Beyond the Rhetoric: Who Really Benefits from Investments in Digital Infrastructure in Low-Income and Low-Literacy Communities in Malawi? (Edister Samson Jamu, Tiwonge Davis Manda, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa)....Pages 223-246
Digital Inequality and Language Diversity: An Ethiopic Case Study (Isabelle A. Zaugg)....Pages 247-267
The End of the Public Sphere: Social Media, Civic Virtue, and the Democratic Divide (Last Moyo)....Pages 269-285
Front Matter ....Pages 287-287
The Digital Divide: Observations from the South About a Failed Dialog with the North (Cristian Berrío-Zapata)....Pages 289-318
Social Inequality, Technological Inequality and Educational Heterogeneity in the Light of the Conectar Igualdad OLPC Programme (Salta, Argentina, 2015–2017) (Alejandra García Vargas, Laura Golovanevsky, María Rosa Chachagua)....Pages 319-346
Afro-Creole Nationalism and the Maintenance of the Digital Divide: The Case of Jamaica (Nova Gordon-Bell)....Pages 347-362
Back Matter ....Pages 363-372

✦ Subjects

Cultural and Media Studies; Digital/New Media; Culture and Technology; Social Media