Digital Divides and Structural Inequalities

Mobile devices play a growing role in the everyday lives of children around the world, prompting important questions about their effects on childhood experiences. Exploring the recent global trends in children’s use of smartphone devices, the authors examine the reconfiguring of children’s communicative practices and cultures of connectivity, documenting the opportunities and risks that smartphone technology affords. Throughout the chapter the authors challenge the notion of “digital childhoods,” drawing on the most reliable research on children and smartphones including findings from Global Kids Online, which suggest that digital divides intersect with existing social inequalities, exacerbating the barriers for less privileged children. This raises further questions about the long-term consequences for children’s development, rights, and future access to opportunities and resources.

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Our commitment at this time of continuing struggle against oppression and structural inequalities

Mind Culture and Activity ◽

10.1080/10749039.2021.1888301 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Beth Ferholt ◽

Ivana Guarrasi ◽

Alfredo Jornet ◽

Bonnie Nardi ◽

Antti Rajala ◽

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Keyword(s):

Structural Inequalities

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Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads

Phi Delta Kappan ◽

10.1177/0031721721998168 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 102 (6) ◽

pp. 68-68

Author(s):

Victoria E.M. Cain

Keyword(s):

Sociology Of Education ◽

Digital Divides ◽

History Of ◽

Article Comment ◽

Mexican Youth ◽

Secret History

In this monthly column, Kappan authors discuss books and articles that have informed their views on education. Victoria Cain recommends The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann. Nancy Gutiérrez recommends Subtractve Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring. And Justin Reich recommends the Sociology of Education article, “Comment: The first and second digital divides” by Paul Attewell.

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Digital Divides: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology

Information Communication & Society ◽

10.1080/1369118x.2011.586434 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 325-327 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anne Kaun

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Digital Divides

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U.S. College Students’ Internet Use: Race, Gender and Digital Divides

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication ◽

10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01439.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 244-264 ◽

Cited By ~ 104

Author(s):

Steve Jones ◽

Camille Johnson-Yale ◽

Sarah Millermaier ◽

Francisco Seoane Pérez

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Internet Use ◽

Digital Divides

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Obstetric Violence in Their Own Words: How Women in Mexico and South Africa Expect, Experience, and Respond to Violence

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/10778012211037375 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110373

Author(s):

Vania Smith-Oka ◽

Sarah E. Rubin ◽

Lydia Z. Dixon

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Powerful Method ◽

Obstetric Violence ◽

The World ◽

Core Feature ◽

Temporal Model ◽

Women's Stories ◽

Structural Inequalities

This article, based on ethnographic research in Mexico and South Africa, presents two central arguments about obstetric violence: (a) structural inequalities across diverse global sites are primarily linked to gender and lead to similar patterns of obstetric violence, and (b) ethnography is a powerful method to give voice to women's stories. Connecting these two arguments is a temporal model to understand how women across the world come to expect, experience, and respond to obstetric violence—that is, before, during, and after the encounter. This temporal approach is a core feature of ethnography, which requires long-term immersion and attention to context.

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