[ecrea] New Book: Theorizing Digital Divide

*Out now*

Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert, /Theorizing Digital Divides 
<https://www.routledge.com/Theorizing-Digital-Divides/Ragnedda-Muschert/p/book/9781138210400 
 >/, Routledge, 2017.

*Description*

**

This volume examines and explains the phenomenon of digital divides and 
digital inequalities from a theoretical perspective. Indeed, with there 
being a limited amount of theoretical research on the digital divide so 
far, Theorizing Digital Divides seeks to collect and analyse different 
perspectives and theoretical approaches in analysing digital 
inequalities, and thus propose a nuanced approach to study the digital 
divide.

Exploring theories from diverse perspectives within the social sciences 
whilst presenting clear examples of how each theory is applied in 
digital divide research, this book will appeal to scholars and 
undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology of 
inequality, digital culture, Internet studies, mass communication, 
social theory, sociology, and media studies.

*Table of Contents*

/Introduction: Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert/

/Section 1: Using classical social theories to understand digital divide/

Chapter 1. Glenn W. Muschert and Ryan Gunderson, The Sociology of Simmel 
and Digital Divides: Information, Value, Exchange, and Sociation in the 
Networked Environment

Chapter 2: Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu, Social capital and the 
three levels of digital divide.

Chapter 3: Tomohisa Hirata, Do contemporary media technologies and the 
architects of them fill the role of the psychoanalyst for the users of them?

Chapter 4: Barbara Barbosa Neves & Geoffrey Mead, The interpretive and 
ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a Weberian perspective

/Section 2: Associative and communicative perspectives/

Chapter 5: Gerard Goggin. ‘Disability and Digital Inequalities: 
Rethinking Digital Divides with Disability Theory’.

Chapter 6: Lorenzo Dalvit. The materiality of mobile phones and visual 
impairment: accessible, accessibility and access devices

Chapter 7: Susan Kretchmer Theorizing Digital Divides Through the Lens 
of Social Construction of Technology, Knowledge Gap, and Social Identity 
Construction

Chapter 8: John Haffner, Connection in Divided Space: Theorizing the 
Geographies of the Digital Divide

Chapter 9: Eva Klinkisch, Anne Suphan. A "recognitional perspective" on 
the 21st century digital divide

/Section 3: Critical and alternative perspectives./

Chapter 10: Last Moyo Rethinking the network society: A decolonial and 
border gnosis of the digital divide in Africa

Chapter 11: Duygu Özsoy. Digital Divide in Turkey as a non- Western Country

Chapter 12: Citt Williams, Tania Gupta, Marilyn Wallace, Theorising 
Online Representation and the Voice of the Digital Subaltern.

Chapter 13. Morten Hjelholt and Jannick Schou. The Digital Divide and 
Citizen Classifications

Chapter 14: Emma A. Jane, Gendered cyberhate: a new digital divide?

/Afterword. Jan Van Dijk /

*Endorsements*

Prof. Steve Jones (UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication at the 
University of Illinois at Chicago).

This book provides a much-needed wide-ranging theoretical foundation for 
research on the digital divide. While scholars and activists have done 
yeoman’s work identifying, studying and narrowing digital divides, 
Ragnedda and Muschert have put together the theoretical infrastructure 
with which we may understand past efforts and move forward with new ones.

Prof. Bridgette Wessels (Newcastle University).

This is a welcome volume that develops our understanding of digital 
divides. It does so through a highly informed understanding of current 
theoretical knowledge of digital divides in a range of disciplinary 
perspectives.  The authors combine to extend this knowledge in 
meaningful ways to address the nuances and complexities of digital 
divides. The theoretical developments will be extremely beneficial for 
scholars and students working in the area of digital divides.

For more information on the book:

https://www.routledge.com/Theorizing-Digital-Divides/Ragnedda-Muschert/p/book/9781138210400 


On Google book:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4OE2DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false 


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