Closing the gap, are we there yet? Reflections on the
persistence of second-level digital divide among adolescents in
Central and Eastern Europe.

C 2013

Closing the gap, are we there yet? Reflections on the persistence of second-level digital divide among adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe.

BARBOVSCHI, Monica and Bianca FIZESAN

Basic information

Original name

Closing the gap, are we there yet? Reflections on the persistence of second-level digital divide among adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe.

Authors

BARBOVSCHI, Monica (642 Romania, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Bianca FIZESAN (642 Romania)

Edition

1. vyd. Oxon, The Digital Divide: Social Inequality and the Internet in International Perspective, p. 179-192, 14 pp. first edition, one volume, 2013

Publisher

Routledge

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of inequality and the stratification of the digital sphere.

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/13:00067533

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-0-415-52544-2

UT WoS

000326814600013

Keywords in English

digital divide; internet

Abstract

V originále

Although the divides in Internet access seem to have diminished, there are still significant differences in terms of the digital skills the young users possess (Hargittai, 2002). Drawing upon the data collected in the EU Kids Online II project, the present chapter investigates the differences in digital competencies and self-confidence of teenagers in four countries in Central and Eastern Europe: Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland. Building on a conflict perspective which emphasizes how Internet use, understood like a package of particular knowledge and skills, plays an important role in maintaining inequalities (Witte & Mannon, 2009), our study showed that parental background accounts for differences in their own use of internet but also in the digital skills of their children. Moreover, the results showed that adult patterns of internet use reproduce rather than challenge class advantages or disadvantages that parents pass on their children. Finally, children-specific differentiations of use contribute to the deepening of the divides.

Links

EE2.3.20.0184, research and development project

Name: Vytvoření interdisciplinárního týmu v oblasti výzkumu internetu a nových médií

Citovat

BARBOVSCHI, Monica and Bianca FIZESAN. Closing the gap, are we there yet? Reflections on the persistence of second-level digital divide among adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe. In Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn Muschert. MUSCHERT, Glenn and Massimo RAGNEDDA. The Digital Divide: Social Inequality and the Internet in International Perspective. 1st ed. Oxon: Routledge, 2013, p. 179-192. first edition, one volume. ISBN 978-0-415-52544-2.

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BARBOVSCHI, Monica and Bianca FIZESAN. Closing the gap, are we there yet? Reflections on the persistence of second-level digital divide among adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe. In Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn Muschert. MUSCHERT, Glenn and Massimo RAGNEDDA. \textit{The Digital Divide: Social Inequality and the Internet in International Perspective}. 1st ed. Oxon: Routledge, 2013, p.~179-192. first edition, one volume. ISBN~978-0-415-52544-2.

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