"You are too out!": a mixed methods study of the ways in which digital divides articulate status and power in China
Xiao, Z
Date: 3 April 2019
Journal
Information Development
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publisher DOI
Abstract
This study investigates the differences in adolescent engagement with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), such as computers, the Internet, and mobile phones. Involving 698 second-year high school students from urban, rural, and ethnic Tibetan regions of China, it finds that patterns of access and use indicate status and ...
This study investigates the differences in adolescent engagement with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), such as computers, the Internet, and mobile phones. Involving 698 second-year high school students from urban, rural, and ethnic Tibetan regions of China, it finds that patterns of access and use indicate status and power, and the meanings teenagers pour into the technologies articulate social and educational differences. On average, Tibetans are disadvantaged in access, and the return on parental education is greater for the mainstream Han than it is for Tibetans. However, state ‘preferential policies’ have mitigated Tibetans’ plight in use, which makes the least privileged Han students with parents having no more than six years of education.
School of Education
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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