social class
Cards (5)
- Digital communication relies heavily upon devices
- Devices are expensive
- Devices need maintenance
- Devices need regular updating
- Digital underclass results in a greater disadvantage and less social capital
- Reasons why digital underclass results in disadvantage and less social capital
- Social networks dependant on DFC
- Education for children relies on DFC
- Knowledge gap is created between those who have access to the internet & can quickly access information and those who cannot
- People feel inferior because they are not sharing digital com
- Information shared through digital com can shape cultural ideas & if excluded, people may feel removed from society
- The relationship between social class & use of the internet may be greater than the research suggested because of embarrassment to admit low status
- Key study: Digital divide, Mertens & D'haenens:
- 79% of lower classes owned game consoles, compared to 65% for higher classes
- Individuals with lower classes tended to focus their technology on entertainment, rather than knowledge
- lower class was linked with lower internet use