Inequalities Flashcards
What did the pew research centre (2012) find?
Older people who regularly use the internet is a tool for reconnection, bridging geographical distances and challenging the generational divide through sharing experiences and skills. The digital divide can also be contributed through a lack of digital sill and confidence, physical or cognitive barriers resulting in social exclusion, economic disadvantages and reduced civic participation
What did the Helsper (2016) find?
That digital communication is dominated by the middle class because they have the resources to invest in the latest technologies leading to a digital underclass characterised by unemployment
What did a 2019 Ofcom survey find?
- 23% of the lower class do not use the internet
- 6% of the middle class do not use the internet
- There needs to be more programmes for digital inclusion affecting wellbeing, social inclusion and employability
What did Ragnedda (2018) find?
4.3 million people in the UK lack basic digital skills and 11.3 million have limited digital awareness increasing social exclusion
What did the world wide we foundation find in 2016?
In poorer counties, women were 50% less likely to access than men in the same communities
What did Prensky (2001) find?
The term, “digital native,” describes young people who have grown up with technology s they are more intuitive and comfortable with it. In contrast to digital immigrants for those who adopted later in life so they actively learned it
What did the 2018 Ofcom survey find?
The use of the internet is gendered as women would miss checking social media compared to men with emails
What did the world wide web foundation find in 2016?
In a women’s rights online survey of both urban poor community and middle income countries, it found that women were 40% less likely to access the internet than men in digital communities. The UN supports this by saying the gendered digital gap is growing especially in developed countries at about the proportion of women on the internet being 10% less