Digital Divides in Europe

Panayiota Tsatsou was born in 1976 in Greece. She is a lecturer in Media and Communication at Swansea University, United Kingdom. Her research lies in the areas of information society, media policy and regulation, political communication, media and gender, and new media and children. Her research work examines various phenomena in relation to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with an emphasis on regulation and policy creation, as well as on the role of ordinary people as ICT users and actors in the information society. Her publications aim to report on innovative and evidence-based solutions to issues arising in the information society. She currently holds an AHRC award to study digital inclusion among minority communities in Wales.

Contents: Introduction - Theory and Conceptual Foundations - The Western-Southern divide in Europe - Greece - Portugal - The UK - Empirical Analysis - Association between Internet use and social culture in the West and South of Europe - Association between Internet use and policy and regulation in the West and South of Europe - Internet adoption influenced by social culture and decision-making: an inferential analysis - Concluding remarks.