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Rethinking digital inequalities: The experience of the marginalized in community technology centers.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rethinking digital inequalities: The experience of the marginalized in community technology centers./
Author:	Nemer, David.
Description:	294 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-01A(E).
Subject:	Information science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3722272
ISBN:	9781339042800

Rethinking digital inequalities: The experience of the marginalized in community technology centers.
Nemer, David.

Rethinking digital inequalities: The experience of the marginalized in community technology centers. - 294 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2015.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have emerged as symbols of modernity in the developing world, and currently policy makers and popular press perceived them as bridges to promote social and digital equalities. However, scholars have regularly demonstrated that digital inclusion projects have often failed to meet expectations related to human development objectives. Some postulate that the problem may not be entirely one of project failure, but rather of our limited understanding of the value that technology provides. Hence, this dissertation emphasizes the socio-cultural aspects of digital inclusion projects aimed at favela residents and attempts to understand ICTs aspects and practices from their perspective.

ISBN: 9781339042800Subjects--Topical Terms:

554358
Information science.

Rethinking digital inequalities: The experience of the marginalized in community technology centers.
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