Digital communication: Negative effecets on social class

Question 1

Mertens and D’Haenens
Digital divide in?
link between?
Use of devices in lower classes compared to middle classes?
Gaming console ownership comparison?
What is the biggest factor in digital inequality?

Answer 1

The digital divide in Brussels - Link between class and internet usage
Devices
Lower classes = entertaiment
Middle classes = develop knowledge and research information
79% of lower classes owned a gaming console
65% of higher social classes owned a gaming console
Social class is the biggest factor in digital inequality compared to gender or ethnicity

Question 2

Helsper
Services?
Victims?
Parents?
What are children from better off backgrounds more likely do and have?

Answer 2

Government plans to make public services digital by default will lead to a digital divide as every individual may not be able to access devices
Children from poorer homes are becoming victims of the digital divide because their parents lack the skills to teach them how to use the internet effectively to their advantage like middle-class counterparts
Children from better-off backgrounds have greater access to the world wide web at home and more likely to exploit its resources

Question 3

Boyle

Answer 3

Media Convergence - (interlinking of social media profiles) has been adopted to promote Western, capitalist ideas such as the pursuit of profit, private ownership, and material objects being presented as important - They are another way we are targeted and exploited! Disadvantages the working class and benefits the upper class.