Digital Divide by Pippa Norris

Digital Divide by Pippa Norris

There is widespread concern that the growth of the Internet is exacerbating inequalities between the information rich and poor. Digital Divide examines access and use of the Internet in 179 nations world-wide. A global divide is evident between industrialized and developing societies. A social divide is apparent between rich and poor within each nation. Within the online community, evidence for a democratic divide is emerging between those who do and do not use Internet resources to engage and participate in public life. Part I outlines the theoretical debate between cyber-optimists who see the Internet as the great leveler. Part II examines the virtual political system and the way that representative institutions have responded to new opportunities on the Internet. Part III analyzes how the public has responded to these opportunities in Europe and the United States and develops the civic engagement model to explain patterns of participation via the Internet.

'Norris's worldwide comparison of 179 countries' national and political context of Internet access and use is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the problem of the digital divide because it blends together the economic aspect with socioeconomic and democratic development with a systematic framework' Prometheus

Pippa Norris is the Director of the United Nations Development Programme's Democratic Governance group in New York, as well as the Maguire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Kennedy School of Government is a public policy school in Boston. Sacred and Secular: Politics and Religion in the World (with Ronald Inglehart, 2004), Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (with Ronald Inglehart, 2004), and Drive Democratization: What Works (with Ronald Inglehart, 2006) are recent publications. Norris, a political scientist, has consulted for a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, International IDEA, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the United Kingdom Election Commission.

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ISBN 13	9780521002233
ISBN 10	0521002230
Title	Digital Divide
Author	Pippa Norris
Series	Communication Society And Politics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2001-09-24
Number of pages	320
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