School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Britz, J.J. (2007). The internet: The missing link between the information rich and the information poor? In Capurro, R., Frühbauer, J., & Hausmanninger, T. (eds.), Localizing the Internet: Ethical Aspects in Intercultural Perspective. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 265-277. [Davis - HM851 .L63 2007]
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Epstein, D., Nisbet, E.C., & Gillespie, T. (2011). Who's responsible for the digital divide? Public perceptions and policy implications. Information Society, 27(2), 92-104. [UNC libraries]
Graham, S. (2004). The software-sorted city: Rethinking the "digital divide." In Graham, S. (ed.), Cybercities Reader. London: Routledge, 324-332. [SILS - T14.5 .C93 2004]
Harambam, J., Aupers, S., & Houtman, D. (2013). The contentious gap: From digital divide to cultural beliefs about online interactions. Information, Communication & Society, 16(7), 1093-1114. [UNC libraries]
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Payton, F. C. (2003). Rethinking the digital divide. Communications of the ACM, 46(6), 89-91. [ACM Digital Library]
Potter, A.B. (2006). Zones of silence: A framework beyond the digital divide. First Monday, 11(5). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_5/potter/index.html.
Prasad, R. (2013). Universal service obligation in the age of broadband. The Information Society, 29(4), 227-233. [UNC libraries]
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Tufekci, Z. (2012). Past and future divides: Social mobility, inequality, and the digital divide in Austin during the tech boom. In Straubhaar, J., Spence, J., Tufekci, Z., & Lentz, R.G. (eds.), Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 85-108. [Davis - HN80.A934 I54 2012] (This volume also contains a number of other chapters that focus on specific aspects of the digital divide in Austin, Texas.)
Wicker, S.B., & Santoso, S.M. (2013). Access to the internet is a human right [Viewpoint]. Communications of the ACM, 56(6), 43-46. [UNC libraries]
Yu, L. (2010). How poor informationally are the information poor?: Evidence from an empirical study of daily and regular information practices of individuals. Journal of Documentation, 66(6), 906-933. [UNC libraries]
Yu, L. (2011). The divided views of the information and digital divides: A call for integrative theories of information inequality. Journal of Information Science, 37(6), 660-679. [UNC libraries]
Comeaux, D., & Schmetzke, A. (2007). Web accessibility trends in university libraries and library schools. Library Hi Tech, 25(4), 457-477. [UNC libraries]
Cook, J. S., & Cook, L. (2004). The ethics of Web design: Ensuring access for everyone. In Quigley, M. (ed.), Information Security and Ethics: Social and Organizational Issues. Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 73-101. [SILS - T14.5 .I55 2005]
Dobransky, K., & Hargittai, E. (2006). The disability divide in internet access and use. Information, Communication, & Society, 9(3), 313-334. [UNC libraries]
Dudley-Sponaugle, A., & Lazar, J. (2004). Web accessibility for users with disabilities: a multi-faceted ethical analysis. In Quigley, M. (ed.), Information Security and Ethics: Social and Organizational Issues. Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 102-116. [SILS - T14.5 .I55 2005]
Ellcessor, E. (2010). Bridging disability divides: A critical history of Web content accessibility through 2011. Information, Communication & Society, 13(3), 289-308. [UNC libraries]
Hill, H. (2013). Disability and accessibility in the library and information science literature: A content analysis. Library & Information Science Research, 35(2), 137-142. [UNC libraries]
Loiacono, E. T. (2004). Cyberaccess: Web accessibility and corporate America. Communications of the ACM, 47(12), 82-87. [ACM Digital Library]
Newell, A.F. (2011). Designing IT systems for older people [and] User sensitive inclusive design. In Design and the Digital Divide: Insights from 40 Years in Computer Support for Older and Disabled People. Morgan & Claypool, 97-106, 115-128. [UNC libraries]
Peters, C., & Bradbard, D.A. (2010). Web accessibility: An introduction and ethical implications. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 8(2), 206-232. [UNC libraries]
Shneiderman, B. (2000). Universal usability. Communications of the ACM, 43(5), 84-91. [ACM Digital Library]
Vicente, M.R., & Lopez, A.J. (2010). A multidimensional analysis of the disability digital divde: Some evidence for Internet use. Information Society, 26(1), 48-64. [UNC libraries]
Barzilai-Nahon, K. (2006). Gaps and bits: Conceptualizing measurements for digital divide/s. The Information Society, 22(5), 269-278. [UNC libraries]
boyd, d. (2012). White flight in networked publics: How race and class shaped American teen engagement with MySpace and Facebook. In Nakamura, L., & Chow-White, P.A. (eds.), Race After the Internet. New York: Routledge, 203-222. [Davis - HT1523 .R25123 2012]
Chen, W. (2013). The implications of social capital for the digital divides in America. The Information Society, 29(1), 13-25. [UNC libraries]
Couldry, N. (2003). Digital divide or discursive design? On the emerging ethics of information space. Ethics and Information Technology, 5(2), 89-97. [UNC libraries]
Hsieh, J.J.P.-A., Rai, A., & Keil, M. (2008). Understanding digital inequality: Comparing continued use behavioral models of the socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged. MIS Quarterly, 32(1), 97-126. [UNC libraries]
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Robinson, L. (2009). A taste for the necessary: A Bourdieuian approach to digital inequality. Information, Communcation & Society, 12(4), 488-507. [UNC libraries]
Fouché, R. (2012). From black inventors to One Laptop Per Child: Exporting a racial politics of technology. In Nakamura, L., & Chow-White, P.A. (eds.), Race After the Internet. New York: Routledge, 61-84. [Davis - HT1523 .R25123 2012]
Gilbert, M. (2010). Theorizing digital and urban inequalities: Critical geographics of 'race', gender and technological capital. Information, Communication & Society, 13(7), 1000-1018. [UNC libraries]
Graham, R., & Smith, D. T. (2010). Dividing lines: An empirical examination of technology use and Internet activity among African-Americans. Information, Commmunication & Society, 13(6), 892-908. [UNC libraries]
Hargittai, E. (2012). Open doors, closed spaces? Differentiated adoption of social network sites by user background. In Nakamura, L., & Chow-White, P.A. (eds.), Race After the Internet. New York: Routledge, 223-245. [Davis - HT1523 .R25123 2012]
Kretchmer, S. B., & Carveth, R. (2001). The color of the net: African Americans, race, and cyberspace. Computers and Society, 31(3), 9-14. [ACM Digital Library]
Kvasny, L., Trauth, E.M., & Morgan, A.J. (2009). Power relations in IT education and work: The intersectionality of gender, race and class. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 7(2/3), 96-118. [Request via interlibrary loan, from instructor, or at http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/lkvasny/JICES-PowerRelations.pdf]
Stern, M.J., & Rookey, B.D. (2013). The politics of new media, space, and race: A socio-spatial analysis of the 2008 presidential election. New Media & Society, 15(4), 519-540. [UNC libraries]
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Brännström, I. (2012). Gender and digital divide 2000-2008 in two low-income economies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya and Somalia in official statistics. Government Information Quarterly, 29(1), 60-67. [UNC libraries]
Cooper, J., & Weaver, K. D. (2003). Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Math/Physics - QA76.9.W65 C66 2003]
French, S. (2002). Gender equity and the use of information communication technologies in the knowledge economy: taking a feminist poststructuralist approach. Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '02): Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology (Raleigh, NC, June 6-8, 2002), 71-76. [Available from instructor]
Kvasny, L., Trauth, E.M., & Morgan, A.J. (2009). Power relations in IT education and work: The intersectionality of gender, race and class. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 7(2/3), 96-118. [Request via interlibrary loan, from instructor, or at http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/lkvasny/JICES-PowerRelations.pdf]
Laurel, B. (1998). Brendal Laureal on games for girls. TED talks. http://www.ted.com/talks/brenda_laurel_on_making_games_for_girls.html.
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Stepulevage, L. (2001). Becoming a technologist: Days in a girl's life. In Green, E., & Adam, A. (eds.), Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity. London: Routledge, 63-83. [SILS - HQ1233 .V57 2001]
Tekobbe, C.K. (2013). A site for fresh eyes: Pinteres's challenge to 'traditional' digital literacies. Information, Communication & Society, 16(3), 381-396. [UNC libraries]
Turkle, S., & Dennis, P. D. (2000). Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age. Washington, DC: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. Available at http://www.aauw.org/member_center/publications/TechSavvy/TechSavvy.pdf.
Bollman, M. (2010, Nov-Dec). Net neutrality, Google, and internet ethics. The Humanist, 70(6), 6-7. [UNC libraries]
Cheng, A.-S., Fleischmann, K.R., Wang, P., Ishita, E., & Oard, D.W. (2012). The role of innovation and wealth in the net neutrality debate: A content analysis of human valuesi n Congressional and FCC hearings. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 63(7), 1360-1373. [UNC libraries]
Cheng, K.C., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Guo, H. (2011). The debate on net neutrality: A policy perspective. Information Systems Research, 22(1), 60-82. [UNC libraries]
Choi, J.P., & Kim, B.-C. (2010). Net neutrality and investment incentives. RAND Journal of Economics, 41(3), 446-471. [UNC libraries]
Crowcroft, J. (2007). Net neutrality: The technical side of the debate: A white paper. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 37(1), 49-56. [UNC libraries]
Kim, M., Chung, C.J., & Kim, J.H. (2011). Who shapes network neutrality policy debate? An examination of information subsidizers in the mainstream media and at Congressional and FCC hearings. Telecommunications Policy, 35(4), 314-324. [UNC libraries]
Krämer, J., Wiewiorra, L., & Weinhardt, C. (2013). Net neutrality: A progress report. Telecommunications Policy, 37(9), 794-813. [UNC libraries]
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Brandtzaeg, P.B., Heim, J., & Harahasanovic, A. (2011). Understanding the new digital divide -- A typology of internet users in Europe. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69(3), 123-138. [UNC libraries]
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Capurro, R. (2007). African Information Ethics Conference: Proceedings. International Review of Information Ethics, 7. Available in three sections: African Information Ethics in the Context of the Global Information Society (Papers 1-15), http://www.i-r-i-e.net/1-15.htm; Information Ethics Issues in Africa (Papers 16-31), http://www.i-r-i-e.net/16-31.htm; and Action Items for the Road Ahead (Papers 32-40), http://www.i-r-i-e.net/32-40.htm.
Capurro, R. (2008). Information ethics for and from Africa. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(7), 1162-1170. [UNC libraries]
Çilan, C.A., Bolat, B.A., & Coskun, E. (2009). Analyzing digital divide within and between member and candidate countries of European Union. Government Information Quarterly, 26(1), 98-105. [UNC libraries]
Howard, P.N. (2007). Testing the leap-frog hypothesis: The impact of existing infrastructure and telecommunications policy on the global digital divide. Information, Communication & Society, 10(2), 133-157. [UNC libraries]
Hudson, D. (2012). Unpacking 'information inequality': Toward a critical discourse of global justice in library and information science. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 36(3-4), 69-87. [UNC libraries]
Loo, B.P.Y., & Ngan, Y.L. (2012). Developing mobile telecommunications to narrow digital divide in developing countries? Some lessons from China. Telecommunications Policy, 36(10-11), 888-900. [UNC libraries]
Parayil, G. (2005). The digital divide and increasing returns: Contradictions of informational capitalism. The Information Society, 21(1), 41-51. [UNC libraries]
Potter, A.B. (2006). Zones of silence: A framework beyond the digital divide. First Monday, 11(5). http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1327/1247.
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Tambulasi, R.I.C. (2009). Pushed to the abyss of exclusion: ICT and social exclusion in developing countries. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 7(2/3), 119-127. [Copy available from instructor]
Tsatsou, P. (2011). Digital Divides in Europe: Culture, Politics and the Western-Southern Divide. Interdisciplinary Communication Studies, 6. Oxford: Peter Lang. [SILS - HC300 .I55 T73 2011]
Zheng, Y., & Walsham, G. (2008). Inequality of what? Social exclusion in the e-society as capability deprivation. IT and People, 21(3), 222-243. [UNC libraries]
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Buré, C.E. (2006). Digital inclusion without social inclusion: The consumption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in homeless subculture in central Scotland. Journal of Community Informatics, 2(2). Available at http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=94&layout=html
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Middleton, K.L., & Chambers, V. (2010). Approaching digital equity: Is wifi the new leveler? Information Technology & People, 23(1), 4-22. [UNC libraries]
Nardi, B. A., & O’Day, V. L. (1999). Digital photography at Lincoln High School. In Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 153-168. [Davis – T14.5 .N344 1999]
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