Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities

by Scott J. Lacombe, Karen Mossberger, Caroline J Tolbert, et al.

Book Overview

Digital information drives participation in politics, the economy, and society. Yet great disparities exist as to which communities have access to the internet. In 2017, only half of residents of formerly industrial Flint, Michigan, had broadband or satellite internet at home, while over 90 percent of those in thriving Sunnyvale, California, in Silicon Valley, were connected. More recently, Covid-19 laid bare these persistent digital divides in both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197585760
• ISBN13: 9780197585764
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"