Full Description
Tracing the development of new technological skills and digital cultures, this book looks at the rise of new digital divides and reveals how these inequalities affect cross-cultural communication from a cultural discourse studies perspective in various ethnic and cultural groups across the world.
The authors discuss the development of multicultural societies across the globe under new challenges brought by digitalization, such as digital exclusion, new professional and personal demands in terms of digital engagement. In addition to highlighting digital inequalities in access, use and benefits of using ICTs, case studies from different national contexts demonstrate the ways minority ethnic and cultural groups are adapting to the new digital environment; explore the transformations that multicultural affairs and communication undergo in the new digital setting; and analyse policy measures aimed at fostering digital inclusion of minor groups. The book advances knowledge of the digital divide, showing its development from a technological access- and skill-based problem into a social and culture-oriented one.
This resourceful text will be of interest to students and scholars of social inequality, digital media and communication studies and anyone interested in learning how multicultural discourses are developing in varied national contexts today.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction 1. Mitigating the Rural-Urban Digital Divide in Ghana: The Role of Community Radio 2. Digital Inequalities in Brazil: The Native Brazilian Communities 3. Digital Inequality and Ethnic Minority: A Case Study on Digital Experience of Santhal Community in India 4. Intersectional Digital Inequalities after the Pandemic: Tackling Digital Gender Gaps in France and Italy 5. Do It Yourself-teaching during the Pandemic. When Teachers Transcend Digital Inequalities 6. Effects of Digital Divide on Cultural and Development Space: An Analysis of Balochistan' Case from Intrastate Perspective of Cultural Discourse Studies 7. Digital Inequality in Africa's Ethnic Minorities: A Case Study of Zimbabwe's Shangaan and Tonga Marginalised Communities 8. Cultural Discourse Analysis and Digital Inequalities in Multicultural Context: A Case Study of Manipur in India 9. Digital Divide and Its Significant Impact on Emerging New Digital Culture: A Study in Dhofar, Oman 10. Digital Journalism Practices at Indigenous African Language Newspapers in Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe: A Cultural Discourse Studies Approach 11. Disability, Debilitation, and the Digital Economy: The Case of the Superapp Grab in the Multicultural Nation of Singapore 12. 5Ws and H as Determinants of Culture-Driven Internet Search Queries in West Africa: A Critical Information-Seeking Discourse Analysis from Google Big Panel Datasets (GBPD)
