Dobransky, Kerry; Hargittai, Eszter (2021). The closing skills gap: revisiting the digital disability divide. In: Hargittai, Eszter. Handbook of Digital Inequality. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 274-282.
People with disabilities face unique challenges online, even once they are connected. While policy, advocacy, and the search for new markets have increased accessibility to the Internet, the question remains as to whether this shift has been accompanied by in a comparable gain in Internet skills. In this chapter, we compare national survey data from 2009 and 2020 about Americans' Internet skills to see whether people with disabilities have closed the skills gap.
People with disabilities face unique challenges online, even once they are connected. While policy, advocacy, and the search for new markets have increased accessibility to the Internet, the question remains as to whether this shift has been accompanied by in a comparable gain in Internet skills. In this chapter, we compare national survey data from 2009 and 2020 about Americans' Internet skills to see whether people with disabilities have closed the skills gap.
| Item Type: | Book Section, refereed, original work |
|---|---|
| Communities & Collections: | 06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Communication and Media Research |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 070 News media, journalism & publishing |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 19 November 2021 |
| Deposited On: | 29 Dec 2021 13:09 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2023 07:09 |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| ISBN: | 9781788116565 |
| OA Status: | Closed |
| Publisher DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116572.00026 |
Dobransky, Kerry