Enhancing digital equity : connecting the digital underclass / Massimo Ragnedda.
Ragnedda, Massimo, 1976- author.
2020
HM851 .R34 2020
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Title Enhancing digital equity : connecting the digital underclass / Massimo Ragnedda.
Author Ragnedda, Massimo, 1976- author.
ISBN 9783030490799 (electronic book)
3030490793 (electronic book)
3030490785
9783030490782
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49079-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-49079-9 doi
10.1007/978-3-030-49
Call Number HM851 .R34 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.48/33
Summary This book highlights how, in principle, digital technologies present an opportunity to reduce social disparities, tackle social exclusion, enhance social and civil rights, and promote equity. However, to achieve these goals, it is necessary to promote digital equity and connect the digital underclass. The book focuses on how the advent of technologies may become a barrier to social mobility and how, by concentrating resources and wealth in few hands, the digital revolution is giving rise to the digital oligarchy, further penalizing the digital underclass. Socially-disadvantaged people, living at the margins of digital society, are penalized both in terms of accessing-using-benefits (three levels of digital divide) but also in understanding-programming-treatment of new digital technologies (three levels of algorithms divide). The advent and implementation of tools that rely on algorithms to make decisions has further penalized specific social categories by normalizing inequalities in the name of efficiency and rationalization.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2020).
Series Palgrave pivot.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030490782
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1. Theorizing Inequalities
2. Old digital inequalities: Digital Divide
3. New digital Inequalities: Algorithms divide
4. Connecting the digital Underclass
5. Conclusions.

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