"Almost anyone with a $40 mobile phone and a nearby cell tower can get online with an ease unimaginable just twenty years ago. An optimistic narrative has proclaimed the mobile phone as the device that will finally close the digital divide. Yet access and effective use are not the same thing, and the digital world does not run on mobile handsets alone. In After Access, Jonathan Donner examines …
"A leading researcher explores digital disparity and the pandemic and asks: how did people of different backgrounds use digital media to negotiate the challenges of isolation, unemployment, home schooling, remote work, and COVID-19 itself? And how did digital technology intersect with existing social and economic disparities? Although it is undeniable that technologies helped facilitate numerou…
"This study of the political economy of rural broadband combines critical policy analysis with stories of rural Americans and offers solutions for solving the rural-urban digital divide"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.