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Introduction to the Special Issue on Inequality in the Digital Environment

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  • Roderick Graham

    (Department of Sociology, Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence, RI 02903, USA)

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The purpose of this special issue is to explore social inequalities in the digital environment. The motivation for this issue is derived from the disproportionate focus on technological and economic aspects of the Information Society to the detriment of sociological and cultural aspects. The research presented here falls along three dimensions of inequality. Two papers explore the ways that race orders interaction online. A second pair of papers explores the experiences of technology users with physical and mental disabilities. A final paper looks at gender, and the higher rates of intimate partner violence experienced by women online. Taken as a whole, these five papers highlight some of the ways that the digital environment can reproduce or mitigate inequalities that have been molded and routinized in the physical environment. [...]

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  • Roderick Graham, 2013. "Introduction to the Special Issue on Inequality in the Digital Environment," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 5(4), pages 1-5, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:5:y:2013:i:4:p:580-584:d:30765
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    1. Danielle Taana Smith, 2013. "African Americans and Network Disadvantage: Enhancing Social Capital through Participation on Social Networking Sites," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 5(1), pages 1-11, March.
    2. Rebecca J. West & Bhoomi K. Thakore, 2013. "Racial Exclusion in the Online World," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 5(2), pages 1-17, May.
    3. Alison Marganski, 2013. "Virtual Relationship Violence and Perspectives on Punishment: Do Gender or Nationality Matter?," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-16, June.
    4. Darren Chadwick & Caroline Wesson & Chris Fullwood, 2013. "Internet Access by People with Intellectual Disabilities: Inequalities and Opportunities," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-22, July.
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