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.
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
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Inequality and Stratification Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social Justice Commons, Sociology of Culture Commons
Comments
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.