The 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text is now co-authored, and includes
significant changes from earlier texts. Presenting a comprehensive review of over a century …

Although numerous government, nonprofit, and relief organizations have endeavored to
educate and prepare the American public for disasters, adults with physical, mental, and …

Jan van Dijk is an internationally renowned scholar in new media studies. He currently
teaches at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. The Deepening Divide is his third book …

Research in the area of educational technology has claimed that Web technology has driven
online pedagogy such that teachers need to know how to use Web technology to assist their …

In the past, several studies have investigated the relationship between gender and
socioeconomic status on the one hand, and students' ICT competences on the other. In this …

Information literacy has thus far been mostly a practical and strategic concept guiding the
library field's efforts in teaching information seeking and using skills. Texts on information …

Based on the PISA data in 2003 and 2006, this paper develops a hierarchical linear model
to identify multi-level explanatory variables of the divide of adolescents' self-reported digital …

Social Cognitive Theory is a theory that derives from Psychology yet has been adopted in
other interdisciplinary subject areas, including information science. The origins and key …

Purpose–Digital technologies have transformed what it means to be literate and to
experience literacy. Various literacies have been coined to capture this transformation …

The digital divide, characterized by disparities in access to and use of technology, presents
a significant challenge in education. This study aims to investigate the impact of the digital …