Access to information technologies among school‐age children: Implications for a democratic society

Michael E. Martinez

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994, vol. 45, issue 6, 395-400

Abstract: Access to information and participation in a democratic society are mutually dependent. This connection implies the possibility that a segment of society can become disenfranchised, not by exclusion from voting rights, but by exclusion from access to information and information technologies. Large‐scale survey data on access to information technologies hint that such a process has already begun. As information technology proliferates, we approach a societal watershed in which technology will either improve the life chances of the disadvantaged or further drive a wedge between the poor and the privileged. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1994
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