[ecrea] New book: Digital Inclusion. An International Comparative Analysis

Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo (eds) /*Digital Inclusion. An 
International Comparative Analysis*/, Lexington Books, 2018

More details here 
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498562126/Digital-Inclusion-An-International-Comparative-Analysis# 


Read the first two chapters on Google Book 
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Digital_Inclusion.html?id=NaQntwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y 


*About the Book: *The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a 
digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge 
and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and 
communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role 
of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ways to avoid forms of digital 
exclusion or digital discrimination. This edited collection comprises of 
chapters written by respected scholars from a variety of countries, and 
brings together new scholarship addressing what the process of digital 
inclusion means for individuals and places in the countries analyzed. 
Each country has its own strategy to guarantee that people can access 
and enjoy the benefits of the information society. While this book does 
not presume to map all the countries in the world, it does shed light 
into these strategies, underlining what each country is doing in order 
to reduce digital inequalities and to guarantee that socially 
disadvantaged people (in terms of disabilities, availability of 
resources, age, geographic location, lack of education, or ethnicity) 
are digitally included.

*Review:* 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. (*Prof. James C. 
Witte*, George Mason University)

*Table of Content *

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
*

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