Handbook of Digital Inequality

Edited by Eszter Hargittai, Professor and Chair of Internet Use and Society, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook of Digital Inequality 1Eszter HargittaiPART I INFRASTRUCTURES AND GEOGRAPHIES2 What’s missing? How technology maintenance is overlooked inrepresentative surveys of digital inequalities 9Amy L. Gonzales, Harry Yan, Glenna L. Read and Allison Brown3 Geographic inequality and the Internet 28Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein4 Infrastructure and instance: how rural communities approach short- andlong-term solutions to access 43Alexis Schrubbe and Sharon Strover5 Digital inequality and mobiles: opportunities and challenges of relyingon smartphones for digital inclusion in disadvantaged contexts 59Teresa Correa, Isabel Pavez and Javier Contreras6 Network and neighborhood effects in digital skills 72Ellen HelsperPART II DIGITAL INEQUALITY THROUGHOUT THE LIFECOURSE7 Mobile media in teen life: information, networks and access 95junoh kimm and Jeffrey Boase8 Looking back at millennials’ mobile transitions: differentiated patternsof mobile phone use among a diverse group of young adults 111Su Jung Kim and Eszter Hargittai9 Smartphone pervasiveness in youth daily life as a new form of digitalinequality 128Marco Gui and Tiziano Gerosa10 Avoiding Facebook: low-income youths’ (negative) discourses about Facebook 145Marina Micheli11 Inequality in access to information about college: how low-incomefirst-year college students use social media for seeking and sharinginformation about college 162Michael G. Brown and Nicole B. Ellison12 Digital skills inequality in the context of an aging society: the case of Poland 179Tomasz Drabowicz13 Digital inequality among older adults: how East Yorkers in Torontonavigate digital media 191Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman and Renwen Zhang14 Online social connectedness and well-being among older adults in the USA 206Travis Kadylak and Shelia R. CottenPART III HEALTH AND DISABILITY15 Digital inequalities in health communication 217Heinz Bonfadelli16 Inequalities in digital health behaviors in American disadvantaged communities 233Xiaoqian Li and Wenhong Chen17 Disability, internet, and digital inequality: the research agenda 252Gerard Goggin18 The closing skills gap: revisiting the digital disability divide 271Kerry Dobransky and Eszter HargittaiPART IV PRIVACY AND TRUST19 Why privacy matters to digital inequality 281Yong Jin Park20 Digital inequalities in online privacy protection: effects of age,education and gender 293Moritz Büchi, Noemi Festic, Natascha Just and Michael Latzer21 How feelings of trust, concern, and control of personal online datainfluence web use 308Elissa M. Redmiles and Cody L. J. Buntain22 Inequalities in online political participation: the role of privacy concerns 323Christoph Lutz and Christian Pieter Hoffmann23 Algorithmic literacy and platform trust 338Bianca C. Reisdorf and Grant Blank24 Drills and spills: developing skills to protect one’s privacy online 355Ashley Marie Walker and Eszter HargittaiIndex

‘This collection is deeply needed amid the hype of digital equity and inclusion. Not only does it focus attention on areas, topics, and communities that demand greater understanding (the elderly, hardware access, disability, and privacy) but it adds crucial nuance and context to the present public and political conversation on digital equity and inclusion, especially given the IIJA’s digital equity programs. It reminds us that money will not solve these issues without deeper understanding and community-driven approaches. In addition to being a must-read for policy makers, this collection would be welcome in senior undergraduate or graduate courses on digital policy, broadband policy, the digital divide, digital media, health communication, media and disability, and research methods, among many others.’