Theorizing Digital Divides

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
	Organization of the book
	References
Section 1 Using classical social theories to understand digital divide
	Chapter 1 The sociology of Simmel and digital divides: Information, value, exchange, and sociation in the networked environment
		Introduction
		The sociology of information
		Simmel on secrecy and money
		Information as an object of value
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 2 Social capital and the three levels of digital divide
		Introduction
		Social capital: a multidimensional and controversial concept
		Social capital and the three levels of digital divide
		Interrelationships between digital and social capital
		Concluding remarks
		References
	Chapter 3 Do data analysts fill the role of the psychoanalyst?: The contemporary digital divide and Freud’s theory
		Introduction
		Methodology
		Attitudes towards data
		Two presuppositions of big data analysis
		Patients’ resistance and their mental illness
		Two presuppositions of psychoanalysis and the difference between the two analyses
		The problems of the end of psychoanalysis
		Conclusions and future directions
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		References
	Chapter 4 The interpretive and ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a Weberian perspective
		Dividers in digital divide studies?
		Weber’s interpretive framework and the ideal type
		Putting Weber to the test: Internet non-use, use, and the in-between
		Conclusion
		References
Section 2 Associative and communicative perspectives
	Chapter 5 Disability and digital inequalities: Rethinking digital divides with disability theory
		Introduction
		Disability in digital divide and inequality theories
		Uses of disability theory for rethinking digital inequality
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6 “The language metaphor”: An epistemological approach to the digital divide
		Introduction
		Language, ICT and different forms of capital
		Digitality divides
		Digitality as a hegemonic language
		Digital registers
		Digitality acquisition and learning
		The “Creolisation” hypothesis
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 7 Theorizing digital divides through the lens of the social construction of technology and social shaping of technology
		Introduction
		The theory of the social construction of technology (SCOT)
		The theory of the social shaping of technology (SST)
		The perpetual conundrums in the US
		The race and ethnicity divide
		The urban-rural divide
		The disability divide
		Explicating the conundrum through the social construction of technology and social shaping of technology theories
		Implications of the SCOT and SST theories for understanding digital divides and directions for future research
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8 Critical infrastructures, critical geographies: Towards a spatial theory of the digital divide
		Introduction
		Geography, the Internet and the digital divide
		A Marxist-postcolonial analysis of the uneven geographic development of Internet infrastructures
		Fixed and digital Internet infrastructures
		Fixed infrastructure
		Digital infrastructure
		Summarizing a spatial theory of the digital divide
		References
	Chapter 9 A “recognitional perspective” on the twenty-first century’s digital divide
		Introduction
		A framework for the twenty-first century digital divide
		Recognition in social sciences
		Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition
		Interpreting the digital divide from a perspective of recognition
		Limitations and conclusion
		Note
		References
Section 3 Critical and alternative perspectives
	Chapter 10 Rethinking the information society: A decolonial and border gnosis of the digital divide in Africa and the Global South
		Introduction
		Beyond political economy of the divide
		The decolonial and border theory
		On language, culture, and the divide
		Border, hybridity, and the divide
		Conclusion: toward a pluriversal Internet
		References
	Chapter 11 Digital divide in Turkey as a non-western country
		Introduction
		The conceptual framework of Şerif Mardin
		İHL Sözlük vs Ekşi Sözlük
		Civil and political participation in Turkey and on the Internet
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 12 This question of the Other presence: Theorizing online representation and the voice of the digital subaltern
		Introduction
		Background
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 13 The digital divide and classifications: The inscription of citizens into the state
		Introduction
		Digital divide(s) and citizenship
		Civil registration in Denmark: an illustrative study
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 14 Gendered cyberhate: A new digital divide?
		Introduction
		Digital divisions
		Gendered cyberhate
		Impact on targets
		Coercion
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Afterword: The state of digital divide theory
		Introduction
		The nature of digital divide theory
		A classification of digital divide theories
		Contemporary digital divide theory at third levels of access
		The way forward
		References
Index