Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the handbook of digital inequality / Eszter Hargittai -- Part I: Infrastructures and geographies -- 2. What's missing? How technology maintenance is overlooked in representative surveys of digital inequalities / Amy L. Gonzales, Harry Yan, Glenna L. Read and Allison Brown -- 3. Geographic inequality and the internet / Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein -- 4. Infrastructure and instance: How rural communities approach short- and long-term solutions to access / Alexis Schrubbe and Sharon Strover -- 5. Digital inequality and mobiles: Opportunities and challenges of relying on smartphones for digital inclusion in disadvantaged contexts / Teresa Correa, Isabel Pavez and Javier Contreras -- 6. Network and neighborhood effects in digital skills / Ellen Helsper -- Part II: Digital inequality throughout the lifecourse -- 7. Mobile media in teen life: Information, networks and access / junoh kimm and Jeffrey Boase -- 8. Looking back at millennials' mobile transitions: Differentiated patterns of mobile phone use among a diverse group of young adults / Su Jung Kim and Eszter Hargittai -- 9. Smartphone pervasiveness in youth daily life as a new form of digital inequality / Marco Gui and Tiziano Gerosa -- 10. Avoiding Facebook: Low-income youths' (negative) discourses about Facebook / Marina Micheli -- 11. Inequality in access to information about college: How low-income first-year college students use social media for seeking and sharing information about college / Michael G. Brown and Nicole B. Ellison -- 12. Digital skills inequality in the context of an aging society: The case of Poland / Tomasz Drabowicz -- 13. Digital inequality among older adults: How East Yorkers in Toronto navigate digital media / Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman and Renwen Zhang -- 14. Online social connectedness and well-being among older adults in the USA / Travis Kadylak and Shelia R. Cotten -- Part III: Health and disability -- 15. Digital inequalities in health communication / Heinz Bonfadelli -- 16. Inequalities in digital health behaviors in American disadvantaged communities / Xiaoqian Li and Wenhong Chen -- 17. Disability, internet, and digital inequality: The research agenda / Gerard Goggin -- 18. The closing skills gap: Revisiting the digital disability divide / Kerry Dobransky and Eszter Hargittai -- Part IV: Privacy and trust -- 19. Why privacy matters to digital inequality / Yong Jin Park -- 20. Digital inequalities in online privacy protection: Effects of age, education and gender / Moritz Büchi, Noemi Festic, Natascha Just and Michael Latzer -- 21. How feelings of trust, concern, and control of personal online data influence web use / Elissa M. Redmiles and Cody L. J. Buntain -- 22. Inequalities in online political participation: The role of privacy concerns / Christoph Lutz and Christian Pieter Hoffmann -- 23. Algorithmic literacy and platform trust / Bianca C. Reisdorf and Grant Blank -- 24. Drills and spills: Developing skills to protect one's privacy online / Ashley Marie Walker and Eszter Hargittai -- Index.

"This cutting-edge Handbook offers fresh perspectives on the key topics related to the unequal use of digital technologies. Considering the ways in which technologies are employed, variations in conditions under which people use digital media and differences in their digital skills, it unpacks the implications of digital inequality on life outcomes. International contributors assess a variety of key contexts that impact access to digital technologies, including contextual variations related to geography and infrastructure, as well as individual differences related to age, income, health and disability status. Chapters explore how variations emerge across the life course, illustrating the effects of digital disparities on personal wellbeing. Intervening in critical debates relating to the digital divide, this Handbook offers key insights into privacy and trust issues that affect technological usage. Employing both quantitative and qualitative investigations into the relationship between social inequality and the Internet, this Handbook is crucial reading for scholars and researchers in both communication and sociology, particularly those focusing on digital inequalities and human-computer interactions. It will also benefit policymakers in need of innovative approaches to understanding, challenging and addressing the digital divide"-- Page 4 of cover