Titlebook: Enhancing Digital Equity; Connecting the Digit Massimo Ragnedda Book 2020 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzer

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new technologies.Explains how algorithms contribute to digit.This book highlights how, in principle, digital technologies present an opportunity to reduce social disparities, tackle social exclusion, enhance social and civil rights, and promote equity. However, to achieve these goals, it is necessar

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Book 2020cial and civil rights, and promote equity. However, to achieve these goals, it is necessary to promote digital equity and connect the digital underclass. The book focuses on how the advent of technologies may become a barrier to social mobility and how, by concentrating resources and wealth in few h

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quity through programmes and services designed to face and reduce traditional and new digital inequalities. The position the individual holds in the network society, where economic and socially relevant information circulates, is a key factor in terms of producing and reproducing social inequalities

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48729-4oduces those basic ideas and concepts that are useful to reflect on how the advent of digital technologies might have exacerbated social inequalities. ICTs are cementing already existing social inequalities, both on a macro level, given the raise to a new digital oligarchy, and on a micro level, rei

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s in scale and pace like never before. However, digital technologies are penalizing socially disadvantaged people, giving rise to the digital underclass. This chapter pays particular attention to (traditional) digital inequalities, namely inequalities in the access, uses and benefits individuals can

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yday lives and how they are affecting social inequalities. More specifically, the chapter looks at the inequalities in (a) knowledge (inequalities intended as the different levels of understanding of how algorithms influence everyday life and different skills and creative techniques to escape algori