Examines issues of connectivity, language and content of the internet. Concludes that "in reality the internet concentrates economic activity and power more narrowly in one group. As a result there is a real risk that we are moving towards a two-tier technology society that perpetuates the old distinctions between North and South."
Mueller-Falcke, Dietrich (author), Matambalya, Francis A.S.T. (author), and Wolf, Susanna (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25439
Notes:
Pages 174-184 in Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun (eds.), Information and communication technologies for development and poverty reduction: the potential of telecommunications. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 362 pages.
Leonard, David (author), Sims, Holly (author), and Sims: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Claremont College, CA; Leonard: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 81 Document Number: C04852
Notes:
In: Kaimowitz, David, ed. Making the link. Boulder, CO : Westview, 1990. p. 43-73
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25591
Notes:
Pages 247-265 in Andrew A. Moemeka (ed.), Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 325 pages.
Van Wart, Montgomery (author), Rahm, Dianne (author), and Sanders, Scott (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29070
Notes:
Pages 61-79 in Peter F. Korsching, Patricia C. Hipple and Eric A. Abbott (eds.), Having all the right connections: telecommunications and rural viability. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 348 pages.
