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posted on 2018-09-20, 10:21 authored by Jasmine M. HarveyThe emergence of new information and communication technologies has generated
much debate both in and out of academia in relation to theories ranging from
economic advancement to imperialism. In the context of the Majority World (low-income
countries), three dominant discourses associated with Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) persist. The first is globalisation, as these
nations open their regulatory gateways in order to engage with the global market in
search of socio-economic advancement. Second, is the discourse of development,
where it is predicted that nations which have joined the global market will use ICTs to
harness global knowledge that shall enable them to be competitive and therefore attain
development. Third, is the discourse of the digital divide which spans across the globe
in the context of the North–South divide, and among nations and communities due to
what has been described as the divide between information 'haves' and 'have nots'
enabled by ICTs. [Continues.]
Funding
Loughborough University, Department of Geography.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Publisher
© J.M. HarveyPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2008Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en