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Why the Institutional Access Digital Divide Might Be More Significant than the Home Broadband Divide

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	McConnell, Christopher Straubhaar, Joseph D.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Digital-inclusion policy in the United States has historically emphasized home broadband access as both its policy priority and goal. Supplying households with broadband access may not do much to improve the ability of individuals to make meaningful use of the Internet, however, since it provides Internet access with little social context beyond the family. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of disposition, habitus, and multiple forms of capital, this paper endeavors to situate Internet use in its broader social context and explores the importance of institutional access, Internet use at work or school, in developing the dispositions and competencies needed to use the Internet in instrumental ways, such as applying for educational programs or communicating with governments. Through descriptive statistics, it identifies which segments of a US city lack institutional access, and, using multivariate analysis, it highlights the role institutional access plays in developing these abilities and its role in further inequality.
Starting Page	56
Ending Page	75
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch005
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch005
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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