The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?

by Benjamin M. Compaine

This book presents data supporting the existence of a gap-along racial, economic, ethnic, and education lines-between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. The Digital Divide refers to the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. If we are indeed in an Information Age, then not having access to this information is an economic and social handicap...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262531933
• ISBN13: 9780262531931
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher