Handbook of Digital Inequality

Edited by Eszter Hargittai, Professor and Chair of Internet Use and Society, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Digital Inequality 1
Eszter Hargittai

PART I INFRASTRUCTURES AND GEOGRAPHIES
2 What’s missing? How technology maintenance is overlooked in
representative surveys of digital inequalities 9
Amy L. Gonzales, Harry Yan, Glenna L. Read and Allison Brown
3 Geographic inequality and the Internet 28
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
4 Infrastructure and instance: how rural communities approach short- and
long-term solutions to access 43
Alexis Schrubbe and Sharon Strover
5 Digital inequality and mobiles: opportunities and challenges of relying
on smartphones for digital inclusion in disadvantaged contexts 59
Teresa Correa, Isabel Pavez and Javier Contreras
6 Network and neighborhood effects in digital skills 72
Ellen Helsper

PART II DIGITAL INEQUALITY THROUGHOUT THE LIFECOURSE
7 Mobile media in teen life: information, networks and access 95
junoh kimm and Jeffrey Boase
8 Looking back at millennials’ mobile transitions: differentiated patterns
of mobile phone use among a diverse group of young adults 111
Su Jung Kim and Eszter Hargittai
9 Smartphone pervasiveness in youth daily life as a new form of digital
inequality 128
Marco Gui and Tiziano Gerosa
10 Avoiding Facebook: low-income youths’ (negative) discourses about Facebook 145
Marina Micheli
11 Inequality in access to information about college: how low-income
first-year college students use social media for seeking and sharing
information about college 162
Michael G. Brown and Nicole B. Ellison
12 Digital skills inequality in the context of an aging society: the case of Poland 179
Tomasz Drabowicz
13 Digital inequality among older adults: how East Yorkers in Toronto
navigate digital media 191
Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman and Renwen Zhang
14 Online social connectedness and well-being among older adults in the USA 206
Travis Kadylak and Shelia R. Cotten

PART III HEALTH AND DISABILITY
15 Digital inequalities in health communication 217
Heinz Bonfadelli
16 Inequalities in digital health behaviors in American disadvantaged communities 233
Xiaoqian Li and Wenhong Chen
17 Disability, internet, and digital inequality: the research agenda 252
Gerard Goggin
18 The closing skills gap: revisiting the digital disability divide 271
Kerry Dobransky and Eszter Hargittai

PART IV PRIVACY AND TRUST
19 Why privacy matters to digital inequality 281
Yong Jin Park
20 Digital inequalities in online privacy protection: effects of age,
education and gender 293
Moritz Büchi, Noemi Festic, Natascha Just and Michael Latzer
21 How feelings of trust, concern, and control of personal online data
influence web use 308
Elissa M. Redmiles and Cody L. J. Buntain
22 Inequalities in online political participation: the role of privacy concerns 323
Christoph Lutz and Christian Pieter Hoffmann
23 Algorithmic literacy and platform trust 338
Bianca C. Reisdorf and Grant Blank
24 Drills and spills: developing skills to protect one’s privacy online 355
Ashley Marie Walker and Eszter Hargittai

Index