Widening the Wedge: Digital Inequalities and Social Media in India

Grassroots information divides in China: Theorising everyday information practices in the Global South

“…Digital divides are reflected in the fact that everyday information practices between rural and urban users are more unevenly distributed in developing countries than in developed ones (Robinson et al, 2020). Empirical studies on digital divides in the Global South countries have found, for example, that those who received lower levels of formal education, or in India, those with no or little of English, are more disadvantaged in adopting and using digital technologies (Rani et al, 2020). But there is a gap in uncovering which dimensions of these divides are strongest, and how this varies in different settings within and between countries in the Global South.…”