Böcker av Emma Rooksby

The term digital divide is used to characterize the injustice associated with inequalities in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). This work presents conceptual frameworks for understanding and tackling digital divides. It includes information on access and skills, access and motivation, and other levels of access.

This book explores the ways in which interpersonal relations are affected by being conducted via computer-mediated communication. Rooksby investigates the benefits, limitations and implications of computer-mediatied communication.

Relates to our perceptions of the positions (or 'place') of ourselves and other people in the world in which we live and how these perceptions affect our actions and interactions with places and people. This book implies that a web of complex processes links the physical, the social and the mental.