Digitally Invisible : How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

Lee, Nicol

ISBN 10: 0815738986 / ISBN 13: 9780815738985

Editore: Brookings Institution Press, 2024

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Titolo: Digitally Invisible : How the Internet Is ...

Casa editrice: Brookings Institution Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2024

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: As New

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Riassunto:

Real-life consequences of the digital divide, and what can be done to close it

More than one-half of the world’s 7.7 billion people still do not have access to the Internet, including millions of people in the United States, which has led the digital revolution.

Most of these non-adopters—whether by choice or circumstance—are poor, less educated, people of color, older, or living in rural communities. As the digital revolution is quickly carving out this other America, it’s likely that these people on the margins of the information-based economy will fall deeper into abject poverty and social and physical isolation.

Based on fieldwork across the United States, this book explores the consequences of digital exclusion through the real-life narratives of individuals, communities, and businesses that lack sufficient online access. The inability of these segments of society to exploit the opportunities provided by the Internet is rapidly creating a new type of underclass: the people on the wrong side of a digital divide. The book focuses on the places in America where technology is widening the gaps among social classes, racial and ethnic minorities, and urban and rural communities.

The author offers fresh ideas for providing equitable access to existing and emerging technologies. Her ideas potentially can offset the unintended outcomes of increasing automation, the use of big data, and the burgeoning app economy. In the end, she makes the case that remedying digital disparities is in the best interest of U.S. competitiveness in the technology-driven world of today and tomorrow.

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Nicol Turner Lee is a fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in legislative and regulatory policies targeting telecommunications and high-tech industries. Her research also focuses on equitable access to technology and the existential threats of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, on vulnerable populations.

Nicol Turner Lee is a fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in legislative and regulatory policies targeting telecommunications and high-tech industries. Her research also focuses on equitable access to technology and the existential threats of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, on vulnerable populations.

Nicol Turner Lee writes at the intersection of technology, race, and social justice. She is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution, and the founder of the AI Equity Lab. A tech policy expert and storyteller, her work has appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times, and on NBC, CNBC, NPR, and the PBS NewsHour. She has served as an adviser on technology policy issues for government agencies, including the National Academies of Sciences and the Federal Communications Commission. She received a PhD from Northwestern University.