Global E-Litism: Digital Technology, Social Inequality and Transnationality Book

1. Introduction
Intersecting Technology and Inequality A Short History of the High-Tech Time The Boom: Amazing Innovation and Diffusion Left behind the Boom Concluding Comments

2. The New Global Geography
Fact Sheet of the Global Digital Divide Measuring the World by Technology: ICT as a Scale of Achievement Measuring from the Bottom Up: E-Waste Sites as the Indication of Technological Underachievement

3. A Matter of Access and Use
The Social Features of the Global Digital Divide Between Access and Use Segmentation by Social Characteristics Cyberclasses, or Transnational E-Litism Layers of Digital Inequality

4. Understanding the Conceptual Origins and Expanding the Scope
Defining the Digital Divide as a Social Problem What's between Technology and Development?
Falling through Which Net?
What's New about the Digital Divide?
Rethinking Scope Conditions

5. Hope and Despair: The Prospects of Development Based on Digitization
The Great Promise of Digital Technology Technological Literacy as the New Human Capital Criterion ICT and Economic Growth The Innovation Divide ICT and International Aid The Pains of Progress Means and Ends in the Globalization of Technology From Economic Development to Human Progress: Connecting ICT with the Millennium Goals

6. Globalization Battles and ICT
"E Stands for English": The Language of E-Connectivity Indigenous Culture under E-Attack Imperialism or Empowerment?
Is the Internet a Tool of Governmentality?

7. ICT and Transnationality
The Globalization of ICT The Role of International Organizations in Technology Globalization Bringing the State Back into Technology Technology and National Sovereignty

8. Bridging the Divide
Making a Cause for Policy Sources of the Global Digital Divide What Sort of Problem Is the Problem of the Global Digital Divide?
What Is Being Done Already?
Beyond Connectivity

Appendix Glossary Bibliography Index