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Verfasser
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Stang, Richard
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Titel
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Digitale Spaltung: Neue Perspektiven auf ein altes Problem
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Jahr
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2001
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In
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DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung 2001(2): Polarisierungen
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Seite
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28
- Zitierlink
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http://www.die-bonn.de/id/1041
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- Abstract
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In the current transition from industrial society towards an „information society“, the importance of access to and information
about new information and communication technologies is ever growing. A „digital divide“ between competent users and nonusers,
forming a new class of „information have-nots“, may be the consequence. – The author points to the increasing importance
of the Internet as a provider of everyday information, as well as to the danger of excluding great numbers of individuals
from accessing and using Internet information as a consequence of differences in age, educational background, technical and
general media competence. He describes various problem levels relevant to the „digital divide“ and argues in favour of long-term
political, educational and research strategies to alleviate these problems.
