Digital divides revisited: what is new about divides and their research?
Digital divides revisited: what is new about divides and their research?
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重新审视数字鸿沟：鸿沟及其研究有哪些新内容？
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2011
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Panayiota Tsatsou
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作者：
Panayiota Tsatsou
本文批判性地回顾了数字鸿沟文献和研究的成熟和最新趋势，突出了鸿沟和相关研究的新元素，并对未来的研究提出了建议。首先，它理清了数字鸿沟令人困惑的本质和持续重要性的某些方面。然后讨论了数字鸿沟的概念在过去二十年中是如何演变的，以及研究文献是如何在语境化的不同尝试的基础上对其进行检验的。本文汇集了理论和实证见解，并建议重新审视数字鸿沟，以说明需要对数字鸿沟的概念和现象采取更少线性和更适当的情境化方法，其中将共同考虑技术，社会和政治来解释鸿沟。它特别建议重新审视数字鸿沟和对这些鸿沟的研究，以便在定性和定量方面强调社会文化和决策动态在构建ICT采用方面的关键作用。因此，它认为，社会中的文化特征网络及其自身的差距和差异，以及政策和监管动态，与技术不断对话，共同影响数字鸿沟，并对社会中其他形式的鸿沟产生影响。
This article critically reviews well-established and recent trends in digital divides literature and research, highlighting new elements of divides and the related research and making recommendations about future research. First, it disentangles some aspects of the puzzling nature and ongoing importance of digital divides. It then discusses how the concept of digital divides has evolved over the last two decades and how research literature has examined it on the basis of different attempts at contextualisation. The article brings together theoretical and empirical insights and suggests that digital divides be revisited so as to illustrate the need for less linear and more properly contextualised approaches to the concept and phenomenon of digital divides where technology, society and politics will be jointly taken into consideration to explain divides. It specifically proposes that digital divides and the research into these be revisited so as to emphasise the critical role of socio-cultural and decision-making dynamics in structuring the adoption of ICT in both qualitative and quantitative terms. Thus, it argues that the web of cultural traits in a society, with its own gaps and disparities, as well as policy and regulation dynamics, are in a constant dialogue with technology, together influencing digital divides and entailing implications for other forms of division in society.