The Internet boosts immeasurably our collective capacity to archive information, search
through large quantities of it quickly, and retrieve it rapidly. It is said that the Internet will …

Information Goods--from movies and music to software code and stock quotes-have
supplanted industrial goods as the key drivers of world markets. Confronted by this New …

At its second session, in May 1995, the United Nations Commission on Science and
Technology for Development (UNCSTD) chose the topic of information technology (IT) and …

Democracy in the Digital Age is a fascinating philosophical exploration of how the emerging
information and communication technologies are impacting political participation in the …

How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most
effective form of power: theoretical foundations and empirical examples of information policy …

Analyzes a national random telephone survey, carried out in October 1995, on the
motivations for and barriers to Internet usage. Eight percent of the random sample reported …

In this paper, we examine efforts undertaken by two cities–Atlanta and LaGrange, Georgia–
to redress the digital divide. Atlanta's initiative has taken the form of community technology …

The existing literature is oriented toward examining how Internet access and use may affect
social capital. The role of social capital in narrowing the digital divides has been frequently …

This article argues that the literature on digital inequality—in its focus on individual
characteristics, behaviors, and outcomes—has overlooked change within the context of …

Los bienes de información, desde las películas y la música al software ya las cotizaciones
de bolsa han sustituido los bienes industriales como motores claves de la economía …