Jen Schradie on How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide
BCNM alum Jen Schradie recently published an article titled "The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide" in Rethinking Class and Social Difference.
From the abstract:
By tracing research on how fear, control, and risk manifest itself with inequalities related to digital content, digital activism, and digital work, I argue that a narrow stratification approach may miss the full cause and effect of digital inequality. Instead, a class analysis based on power relations may contribute to a broader and more precise theoretical lens to understand the digital divide. As a result, technology can reinforce, or even exacerbate, existing patterns of social and economic inequality because of this power differential.
Read the entire abstract and article here!