Helsper, Ellen 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0852-2853
(2020)
Digital inequalities amongst digital natives.
In: Green, Lelia, Holloway, Donell, Stevenson, Kylie, Leaver, Tama and Haddon, Leslie, (eds.)
The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children.
Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions.
Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 435 - 448.
ISBN 9781138544345
Abstract
Young people still encounter obstacles to participation in digital societies. Analyses of internationally comparative datasets show that inequalities exist in access, skills, digital media use, and the positive and negative outcomes achieved from this. Socio-economic disadvantage and low literacy relate to lower levels of access and use; age and gender differences relate to a reliance on public connections, lower skill levels, narrow engagement, and less positive outcomes; socio-emotionally vulnerable youth with high literacy levels are more likely to experience negative outcomes. The chapter concludes that inequalities will persist into the future unless disadvantaged youths’ socio-digital environments change.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-... |
| Additional Information: | © 2021 Taylor & Francis |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2021 08:06 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2024 04:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108982 |
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