ICT and Educational (Dis)advantage: Families, Computers and Contemporary Social and Educational Inequalities

Autor/inn/en	Angus, Lawrence; Snyder, Ilana; Sutherland-Smith, Wendy
Titel	ICT and Educational (Dis)advantage: Families, Computers and Contemporary Social and Educational Inequalities
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25 (2004) 1, S.3-18 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Access to Computers; Equal Education; Educationally Disadvantaged; Educational Technology; Internet; Social Capital; Information Technology; Computer Uses in Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Unterrichtsmedien; Sozialkapital; Informationstechnologie; Computernutzung
Abstract	Because access to new technologies is unequally distributed, there has been considerable debate about the growing gap between the so-called information-rich and information-poor. Such concerns have led to high-profile information technology policy initiatives in many countries. In Australia, in an attempt to 'redress the balance between the information rich and poor' by providing 'equal access to the World Wide Web' ( Virtual Communities, 2002 ), the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Virtual Communities (a computer/software distributor) and Primus (an Internet provider) in late 1999 formed an alliance to offer relatively inexpensive computer and Internet access to union members in order to make 'technology affordable for all Australians' ( Virtual Communities, 2002 ). In this paper, we examine four families, one of which had long-term Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) access, and three of which took advantage of the Virtual Communities offer to get home computer and Internet access for the first time. We examine their engagement with ICT and suggest that previously disadvantaged family members are not particularly advantaged by their access to ICT. (Author).
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