Digital divides inequalities

Digital divides inequalities

Question: Digital divides inequalities. Digital divides are not just experienced in terms of lack of access to digital technology, they are also experienced in terms of inequalities in education, knowledge and civic life. Discuss in relation one or more of these areas of inequality.
A detailed critical argument on education and knowledge and more inequalities that are experienced in digital divides with reading list below

Reading list :

Wessels, B. (2010): Understanding the Internet: a socio-cultural perspective. Palgrave. Chapter Two
Castells, M. (2001): The Internet Galaxy: reflections on the Internet, business and society, Oxford University Press.
Goggin, G. and McLelland, M. (eds.) (2017) Routledge Companion to Internet Histories. Routledge.
Lupton, D. (2015): Digital Sociology. Routledge.
MacKenzie, D. and Wajcman, J. (1999) The Social Shaping of Technology. Open University Press.
Orton-Johnson, K and Prior, N. (2013) Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives Palgrave MacMillan.
Abrams, P. (1982). Historical Sociology. Cornell University Press.
Betancourt, M. (2016) The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books.
Burrows, R. (2019), On Neoreaction, The Sociological Review Blog. Available at:
https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/on-neoreaction
Castells, M. (1996): The Rise of the Network Society. The Information Age, Economy, Society and Culture, Vol 1, Oxford, Blackwell
Fuchs, C (2019). Propaganda 2.0: Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model in the Age of the Internet, Big Data and Social Media. in: PedroCarañana, J., Broudy, D. and Klaehn, J. (ed.) The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness, London University of Westminster Press: 71-91.

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