Introduction to the Special Issue on Inequality in the Digital Environment

Authors

Roderick Graham, Old Dominion UniversityFollow

Document Type

Editorial

Publication Date

11-2013

DOI

10.3390/fi5040580

Publication Title

Future Internet

Volume

5

Issue

4

Pages

580-584

Abstract

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.

Comments

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

ORCID

0000-0001-6295-6620 (Graham)

Original Publication Citation

Graham, R. (2013). Introduction to the special issue on inequality in the digital environment. Future Internet, 5(4), 580-584. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi5040580

Repository Citation

Graham, Roderick, "Introduction to the Special Issue on Inequality in the Digital Environment" (2013). Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 45.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/sociology_criminaljustice_fac_pubs/45