Information and equity

Lievrouw, Leah A.; Farb, Sharon E.

doi:10.1002/aris.1440370112

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“…Demographic and socioeconomic variables such as age, gender, education, and income have consistently been shown to affect which Internet applications are used and in what ways (Bonfadelli 2002;Brandtzaeg, Heim, and Karahasanovic 2011;Willis and Tranter 2006;Zillien and Hargittai 2009). Recent cross-country results on these usage divides show that online information seeking is predicted by young age, high education, and years of Internet experience .In addition to such structural inequalities, motivational factors have also been found to influence beneficial and advanced uses of the Internet (e.g., Lievrouw and Farb 2003;Zillien and Hargittai 2009). Motivation, that is, interest and expected outcomes, guides users' attention to specific media content-media use accordingly satisfies specific needs (Katz, Blumler, and Gurevitch 1973).…”

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Testing a Digital Inequality Model for Online Political Participation

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Vogler

2017

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Original ArticleInternet use can facilitate democratic processes from information seeking to debating political issues and voting. However, various obstacles to "digital democracy" remain (Hindman 2009;Mossberger, Tolbert, and Stansbury 2003;Schlozman, Verba, and Brady 2010). There are still sizeable percentages of the population that are excluded from the digital society due to lack of basic physical Internet access (ITU 2016). Nonusers are likely to become marginalized as key resources for societal participation are increasingly or exclusively found online.Even under the assumption that further diffusion of the Internet will close the access divide, questions regarding the uses and consequences of the Internet for social inclusion persist (Willis and Tranter 2006;Witte and Mannon 2010). The web's nearly unlimited information sources and spaces for political discussion brought with them high hopes for a revitalizing and mobilizing effect on democratic participation. The utopic visions were quickly accompanied by cautionary voices proposing that the "political resources available via the Internet will empower those with the resources and motivation to take advantage of them, stranding the disengaged farther behind" (Norris 2001:238). The question thus remains in how far online political participation is socially structured in a way that reflects traditional inequalities. This article tests the relationship between social position and online political participation, including the mediating effect of political interest and Internet skills.The study uses rich primary data from a nationally representative two-wave survey that affords a high level of reliability and validity. Statistical results are based on multivariate modeling (structural equation modeling; SEM) including measurement invariance testing. The literature review identified two existing studies that used SEM to explain online political participation as the key dependent variable. This article extends a model proposed by De Marco, Robles, and Antino (2014) by including political interest, a crucial determinant of political behavior. A model by Min (2010), on the other hand, is advanced by modeling Internet skills and political interest as mediators between social position and digital participation. Finally, we address digital political engagement from the theoretical perspective of sociological digital inequality research (Hargittai and Hsieh 2013;Robinson et al. 2015): full social inclusion in the digital society increasingly requires advanced uses of the Internet such as online political participation.Our results...

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Testing a Digital Inequality Model for Online Political Participation

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2017

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“…El concepto, derivado del griego, significa "los principios de la razón y la moderación en el ejercicio de los derechos individuales" (10). Una vez definida, valdría contestar cuál es el criterio universal de "razón y moderación" que podría definir con absoluta claridad si una situación social es justa o no; o bien, establecer si las nociones de equidad e inequidad tienen un elemento de contingencia y deben revisarse periódicamente a la luz de las condiciones sociales, económicas, políticas y culturales.…”

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El acceso a la información como determinante social de la salud

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Noronha³

2011

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ARTÍCULO / ARTICLE RESUMEN A lo largo de más de un siglo de investigación, permanece viva la discusión sobre las dimensiones formativas y explicativas que tienen los procesos sociales con relación a la salud de las poblaciones. Las evidencias recogidas a lo largo de este período, en los más distintos contextos y tiempos históricos, apuntan hacia una ecuación compleja entre salud, desigualdades en las condiciones de vida y la red de vínculos y asociaciones entre individuos y grupos. Por ser evitables, injustas e innecesarias, las inequidades en salud son elementos susceptibles de intervención; en particular, el acceso a la información emerge como una dimensión importante para la equidad en salud. Este artículo presenta una discusión inicial sobre el concepto de acceso a la información y de algunos de los distintos marcos y dimensiones en el ámbito de la salud. Finaliza con la propuesta de construcción de una agenda orientada a la promoción del uso de la información en y para la salud.PALABRAS CLAVE Acceso a la Información; Desigualdades en la Salud; Alfabetización en Salud; Tecnología de la Información.ABSTRACT After more than a century of research, the debate about how social processes shape the health of populations remains very much alive. The evidence collected througout this time, in its variety of contexts and historical periods, points to a complex equation between health, inequalities in living conditions and the interactions and associations between individuals and groups. Because they are avoidable, unfair and unnecessary, health inequities are elements open to intervention: in particular, access to information emerges as an important dimension of health equity. This article aims to contribute to the discussion of this topic, especially with regard to the concept of access to information and some of its various dimensions. Finally, the article proposes the need for launching an affirmative agenda focused on promoting the use of information in and for health.

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“…As Lievrouw and Farb (2003) argue, "a primary requirement for a 'good society' is equitable information access and use" (p. 505).…”

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“…Despite these considerations, providing a reasonable level of universal service is crucial to ensuring information equity. Lievrouw and Farb (2003) define "information fair or reasonable distribution of information among individuals, groups, regions, categories, or other social units, such that those people have the opportunity to achieve whatever is important or meaningful to them in their lives" (p. 503). Their definition of information equity is very useful in giving a rationale for universal service in terms of social justice or fairness.…”

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“…Lievrouw and Farb (2003) define "information equity" as the "fair or reasonable distribution of information among individuals, groups, regions, categories, or other social units" (p. 503). A well developed universal service policy will help to reduce the information gap by providing services for the economically and socially marginalized.…”

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