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Digital Naïves Go Online
Digital Naïves Go Online

Author(s): Rozália Klára Bakó
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Communication studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: digital naïves; digital inclusion; global perspective; local example; Romania;

Summary/Abstract: We live in a networked world with a fast pace of digitalization, and yet about half of the humanity is still offline (United Nations, 2018). Information and communication technologies are playing a key role in our public and private lives, both during work- and playtime. No wonder that social inequalities are increasingly reflected as digital inequalities in terms of infrastructural access, skills, and cultural practices online: those left behind can hardly keep up. The present research note brings together theoretical and practical resources related to digital inclusion issues globally, with local examples from Romania, where digital naïves – the poor, the rural, the elderly, the disabled, and the less educated – are more at risk.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 121-129
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English
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