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
Massimo Ragnedda is senior lecturer of mass communication at
Northumbria University.
Bruce Mutsvairo is associate professor in the School of
Communication of the University of Technology Sydney.
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.
*James C. Witte, George Mason University*
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