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Comparing Digital Divides: Internet Access and Social Inequality in Canada and the United States
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Comparing Digital Divides: Internet Access and Social Inequality in Canada and the United States

on January 9, 2010 at 9:08 pm ×

Howard, Philip N., Laura Busch, and Penelope Sheets. “Comparing Digital Divides:  Internet Access and Social Inequality in Canada and the United States.” Canadian Journal of Communication 35, no. 1 (2010): 109-128. Abstract: What is the best way to measure and track the digital divide, in a comparative manner, over time? [...]

Sizing Up Information Societies
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Sizing Up Information Societies

on October 8, 2009 at 11:06 am ×

Philip N. Howard, Laura Busch, Dawn Nafus, and Ken Anderson. “Sizing up Information Societies—Towards a Better Metric for the Cultures of ICT Adoption.” The Information Society 25, no. 3 (2009): 208-19. When researchers study technology diffusion in a global and comparative manner, they often find that economic productivity explains differences in the [...]