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Track: Digital Media: Content and Communication
Minitrack: Digital Divide/s and Inclusion/s 

By digital divide we refer to the various factors that affect inequality among users and people in the information era. Digital divide plays an important role in last years’ discourse in theory and practice as wel. Starting in the 90’s by focusing in infrastructures divides between the ‘have’ and ‘have-not’ and continuing in the following years to other dimensions of the divide such as skill, usage, governmental and communal support and more…

Digital Divide appears in many places as session and mini-track or track and it will be hard to name all of these. Three small examples of coming conferences – Communities and Technologies conference, IR-10 and the Doha conference. This is our third year at HICSS. The mini-track is successful both in attracting relatively large number of submissions. We had a good attendance and many potential contributors expressed their interest in this topic. Next year we will publicize this mini-track to new audiences – like development scholars, literacy scholars etc...

The mini-track calls for papers that study the digital divide in different levels, methods and perspectives.

Possible investigations of the digital divide may focus on international, national, local, sector, communal, and individual level. Both empirical and theoretical papers are invited.

Potential contributions related to the digital divide may include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Conceptualisation and theory of digital divide

  • Digital divide versus digital spectrum

  • Socio-demographic factors– gender, age, education, income, ethnic diversity, race diversity, language diversity, religiosity

  • Social and governmental support – for example the use of supportive initiatives, policy and applications to bridge the gap, or how society and community impact eInclusion

  • Access and technology – infrastructure factors

  • Affordability

  • Use – skills, frequency and time, locus, autonomy of use, what do users do online and for what purpose

  • Accessibility focusing mainly in populations with special needs

  • Measurements index – e-readiness, DiDix and more

  • Comparative analysis of policy

  • Comparative cross-country or cross-region research

  • Country or region specific case studies
     

Minitrack co-chairs:

Karine Barzilai-Nahon (Primary Contact)
The Information School
University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840
Seattle, WA 98195-2840
Phone: 206-685-6668
Fax: 206-616-3152
Email: karineb@u.washington.edu

Narcyz Roztocki
School of Business
State University of New York at New Paltz
75 South Manheim Boulevard,
New Paltz, NY 12561
Phone: 845-257-2935
Fax: 845-257-2947
Email: roztockn@newpaltz.edu