This paper explores Digital Poverty (DP) in England by adopting the DP Alliance’s theoretical framework
Too many people still lack the technology or skills they need to live in today’s online world. This is leading to a widening divide in society, exacerbated by our reliance on digital technology during the pandemic.
Bridging the Divide shows that, while more people are online now than before the pandemic, 1.5 million households are still not connected to the internet at all, and 29 per cent of adults have very low digital engagement – barely using internet devices, email or online shopping and banking. Some groups are much more likely to be digitally excluded than others, including older people, disabled people and people on low incomes.
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Discussions about how Facebook operates have been high on the agenda over the past week as the US Congress investigates the platform’s impact. At the core of these discussions are questions of how Facebook uses data that we, as users, generate.
Year Published: 2o21 Date Published: 13/09/2021 Author/s: Sonia Livingstone, Giovanna Mascheroni, Mariya Stoilova Research Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448211043189 Key Takeaways: Research
Year Published: 2021 Date Published: 21/02/2021 Research Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1874475 Methodology: Our data comes from the Oxfordshire Digital Inclusion Project,
Year Published: 2017 Date Published: 01/03/2017 Author/s: Dr Huw C. Davies, Dr Rebecca Eynon, Ms Sarah Wilkin Research Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1293131?scroll=top&needAccess=true
