From "Digital Inequality: from Unequal Access to Differentiated Use" by Paul

Essay

From "Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use" by Paul DiMaggio, Eszter Harittai, Coral Celeste, and Steven Shafer
This chapter reviews what we know about inequality in access to, and use of, new digital technologies with a special reference to the Internet. The focus is unique in terms of reviewing the literature because it is unusually broad: couching Internet dynamics within the context of new technologies allows the authors to draw reasoned conclusions about the dimensions of inequality associated with its use and the impact of these forms of informational technology and informational goods on inequality.
-How is variation in the extent to which people exercise autonomy in using the Web constitute a dimension of inequality?