[Air-L] New Book: Theorizing Digital Divides

[Massimo Ragnedda]

Apologies for cross posting





*Out now*



Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert, *Theorizing Digital Divides
<https://www.routledge.com/Theorizing-Digital-Divides/Ragnedda-Muschert/p/book/9781138210400>*,
Routledge, 2017





*Description*



This volume examines and explains the phenomenon of digital divides and
digital inequalities from a theoretical perspective. Indeed, with there
being a limited amount of theoretical research on the digital divide so
far, Theorizing Digital Divides seeks to collect and analyse different
perspectives and theoretical approaches in analysing digital inequalities,
and thus propose a nuanced approach to study the digital divide.



Exploring theories from diverse perspectives within the social sciences
whilst presenting clear examples of how each theory is applied in digital
divide research, this book will appeal to scholars and undergraduate and
postgraduate students interested in sociology of inequality, digital
culture, Internet studies, mass communication, social theory, sociology,
and media studies.





*Table of Contents*



*Introduction: Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert*





*Section 1: Using classical social theories to understand digital divide*



Chapter 1. Glenn W. Muschert and Ryan Gunderson, *The Sociology of Simmel
and Digital Divides: Information, Value, Exchange, and Sociation in the
Networked Environment*



Chapter 2: Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu,* Social capital and the
three levels of digital divide*.



Chapter 3: Tomohisa Hirata, *Do contemporary media technologies and the
architects of them fill the role of the psychoanalyst for the users of
them?*



Chapter 4: Barbara Barbosa Neves & Geoffrey Mead, *The interpretive and
ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a Weberian
perspective*





*Section 2: Associative and communicative perspectives*



Chapter 5: Gerard Goggin. *‘Disability and Digital Inequalities: Rethinking
Digital Divides with Disability Theory’*.



Chapter 6: Lorenzo Dalvit. *The materiality of mobile phones and visual
impairment: accessible, accessibility and access devices*



Chapter 7: Susan Kretchmer *Theorizing Digital Divides Through the Lens of
Social Construction of Technology, Knowledge Gap, and Social Identity
Construction*



Chapter 8: John Haffner, *Connection in Divided Space: Theorizing the
Geographies of the Digital Divid*e



Chapter 9: Eva Klinkisch, Anne Suphan. *A "recognitional perspective" on
the 21st century digital divide*





*Section 3: Critical and alternative perspectives.*



Chapter 10: Last Moyo *Rethinking the network society: A decolonial and
border gnosis of the digital divide in Africa*



Chapter 11: Duygu Özsoy. *Digital Divide in Turkey as a non- Western
Country*



Chapter 12: Citt Williams, Tania Gupta, Marilyn Wallace, *Theorising Online
Representation and the Voice of the Digital Subaltern.*



Chapter 13. Morten Hjelholt and Jannick Schou. *The Digital Divide and
Citizen Classifications*



Chapter 14: Emma A. Jane, *Gendered cyberhate: a new digital divide?*







*Afterword. Jan Van Dijk *







*Endorsements*



Prof. Steve Jones (UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication at the
University of Illinois at Chicago).



This book provides a much-needed wide-ranging theoretical foundation for
research on the digital divide. While scholars and activists have done
yeoman’s work identifying, studying and narrowing digital divides, Ragnedda
and Muschert have put together the theoretical infrastructure with which we
may understand past efforts and move forward with new ones.



Prof. Bridgette Wessels (Newcastle University).



This is a welcome volume that develops our understanding of digital
divides. It does so through a highly informed understanding of current
theoretical knowledge of digital divides in a range of disciplinary
perspectives.  The authors combine to extend this knowledge in meaningful
ways to address the nuances and complexities of digital divides.  The
theoretical developments will be extremely beneficial for scholars and
students working in the area of digital divides.











For more information on the book:

https://www.routledge.com/Theorizing-Digital-Divides/Ragnedda-Muschert/p/book/9781138210400




On Google book:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4OE2DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false




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