THE GLOBAL DIGITAL DIVIDE - WITHIN AND BETWEEN COUNTRIES
THE GLOBAL DIGITAL DIVIDE - WITHIN AND BETWEEN COUNTRIES
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全球数字鸿沟——国家内部和国家之间
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2004
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B. Wellman
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作者：
Wenhong Chen;B. Wellman
互联网的扩散（及其伴随的数字鸿沟）发生在社会经济、技术和语言因素的国际和国内差异的交叉点上。电信政策、基础设施和教育是边缘化社区参与信息时代的必要条件。高昂的费用、英语语言优势、缺乏相关内容以及缺乏技术支持是弱势群体使用计算机和互联网的障碍。与过去十年互联网接入和使用的爆炸式增长相比，发达国家互联网使用的扩散可能正在放缓甚至停滞。随着互联网在发达国家的普及，北美和其他发达国家之间的数字鸿沟正在缩小，但仍然很大。在几乎所有国家，这种差距仍然很大，而且随着互联网用户数量和百分比的增加，这种差距还在扩大，因为互联网的新用户在人口统计学上与已经上网的人相似。处于数字鸿沟错误一边的个人、社会群体和国家可能越来越被排除在以知识为基础的社会和经济之外。
The diffusion of the Internet (and its accompanying digital divides) has occurred at the intersection of both international and within-country differences in socioeconomic, technological and linguistic factors. Telecommunications policies, infrastructures and education are pr erequisites for marginalized communities to participate in the information age. High costs, English language dominance, the lack of relevant content, and the lack of technological support are barriers for disadvantaged communities using computers and the Internet. The diffusion of Internet use in developed countries may be slowing and even stalling, when compared to the explosive growth of Internet access and use in the past decade. With the proliferation of the Internet in developed countries, the digital divide between North American and developed countries elsewhere is thus narrowing, but remains substantial. The divide also remains substantial within almost all countries, and is widening even as the number and percentage of Internet users increases, as newcomers to the Internet are demographically similar to those already online. People, social groups and nations on the wrong side of the digital divide may be increasingly excluded from knowledge-based societies and economies.