[Air-L] New Book: Digital Inclusion. An International Comparative Analysis

[Massimo Ragnedda]

Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo (eds) Digital Inclusion. An
International Comparative Analysis, Lexington Books, 2018

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*About the Book: *The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a
digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge
and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and
communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role
of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ways to avoid forms of digital
exclusion or digital discrimination. This edited collection comprises of
chapters written by respected scholars from a variety of countries, and
brings together new scholarship addressing what the process of digital
inclusion means for individuals and places in the countries analyzed.
Each country has its own strategy to guarantee that people can access
and enjoy the benefits of the information society. While this book does
not presume to map all the countries in the world, it does shed light
into these strategies, underlining what each country is doing in order
to reduce digital inequalities and to guarantee that socially
disadvantaged people (in terms of disabilities, availability of
resources, age, geographic location, lack of education, or ethnicity)
are digitally included.

*Review:* Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo provide a long overdue
account of digital exclusion from a global perspective. The contributors
to this edited volume go beyond Western Europe, the Untied States, and
Australia to consider the BRICS countries, the Middle East, and Africa
and consider digital access empirically and theoretically. The essays in
this volume highlight the costs of exclusion, but also the potential and
opportunities that may result from greater inclusion. (*Prof. James C.
Witte*, George Mason University)

*Table of Content *

Introduction: Digital Inclusion: Empowering People through Information
and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo

/Part I: Digital Inclusion in Advanced Countries/

Chapter 1: Reducing and Preventing Digital Discrimination: Digital
Inclusion Strategies in Europe, Massimo Ragnedda

Chapter 2: Not So Ubiquitous: Digital Inclusion and Older Adults in
Australia, Sue Malta and Raelene Wilding

Chapter 3: Digital Inclusion in International Perspective: An
Asset-Based Approach to Digital Inclusion Research in the US Context,
Bianca C. Reisdorf and Colin Rhinesmith

/Part II: Digital Inclusion in BRICS Countries/

Chapter 4: From Access to Proficiency: Reconceptualising Digital
Inclusion in a Rural Area in South Africa, Lorenzo Dalvit

Chapter 5: Mapping the Evolutive Trajectories of China's Digital Divide:
A Longitudinal Observation, Jianbin Jin, Fanxin Meng, Anfan Chen, Lin
Shi, and Tao Wang

Chapter 6: Changes in Knowledge Acquisition According to the Proximity
with Digital Media Networks, Andrea Limberto

/Part III: Digital Inclusion in the Middle East/

Chapter 7: Digital Inclusion in Jordan: Opportunities and Hurdles, Hanna
Kreitem

Chapter 8: An Explanatory Analysis of Facebook’s Effect on Social
Cohesion in Iran, Hamid Abdollahyan and Mahin Sheikh Ansari

Chapter 9: “Nothing Is Ever Truly New": The Persisting Digital Exclusion
in Israel, 2002–2013, Amit M. Schejter, Orit Ben-Harush, and Noam Tirosh

/Part IV: Digital Inclusion in Africa/

Chapter 10: ICT and Development: Narrowing the Digital Divide and the
Knowledge Gap of ICT Users in Cameroon and Ghana, Kehbuma Langmia and
Christiana Hammond

Chapter 11: Kenya's Digital Divide: Challenged, Evolving, and
Persistent, Norbert Wildermuth

/Afterword, /Why Digital Inclusion Now? Gerard Goggin
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