Digital Divide and Web‐Use Skills

Abstract

Research indicates that technology uses among the public are associated with social and cultural capital and social mobility. Evidence supports the persistent presence of a digital divide in the US population. Given the implications of this divide for citizens in terms of digital literacy and democratic participation, life and livelihood outcomes, this entry addresses the following issues: (i) the various ways in which the digital divide has been defined over time, (ii) present‐day empirical findings on the extent of the digital divide in US contexts since 2017, (iii) advances in theoretical conceptualization that expand our understanding of the systemic forces at play, and (iv) one example of a solution to the problem of mitigating the digital divide that takes into account such systemic forces in its implementation strategy and includes measurable effects.

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